...reality is always plural and mutable.

If it's true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the others here for?

Belief in the traditional sense, or certitude, or dogma, amounts to the grandiose delusion, "My current model" -- or grid, or map, or reality-tunnel -- "contains the whole universe and will never need to be revised." In terms of the history of science and knowledge in general, this appears absurd and arrogant to me, and I am perpetually astonished that so many people still manage to live with such a medieval attitude.

I think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here.

There is no governor anywhere. You are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped. If anybody could go into dhyana at will, nobody could be controlled - by fear of prison, by fear of whips or electroshock, by fear of death, even. All existing society is based on keeping those fears alive, to control the masses. Ten people who know would be more dangerous than a million armed anarchists.

The path up is the path down. The way forward is the way back. The universe inside is outside but the universe outside is inside.

If you don't laugh at all, you've missed the point. If you only laugh, you've missed your chance from illumination.