The need for certainty is the greatest disease the Mind faces

I find the training of the mind that Zen puts people through is by far to me, the most interesting, one of the most interesting disciplines.

If you're not careful people will judge you based on these appearances and they will pigeon hole you that this is the person that you are. Your shy, your aggressive, your this type or that type and you lose the control of the dynamic, they become the ones that determine who you are. A powerful person never loses control of the dynamic they are in someway in control.

When you raise your opinion of yourself and what you are capable of it has a decided influence on what you do.

Only your hearts be frolic, for the time Craves that we taste of naught but jouissance.

There is something I call social intelligence. You can do a lot in life on your own and you can do all kinds of stuff, but if you're really bad with people, if you're really naive or aggressive and push people away, if you don't know the political environment you're in, it invalidates all the things you know. You're not going to get anywhere.

Our times might emphasize equality, which we then mistake for the need for everyone to be the same, but what we really mean by this is the equal chance for people to express their differences, to let a thousand flowers bloom.