All of the truly important battles are waged within the self. (7)

Transformations require that we let go of familiar ways of doing things, without yet knowing what we will do next.

The adult May fly lives only a few hours, just long enough to mate. He has neither mouth nor stomach, but needs neither since he does not live long enough to need to eat. The eggs the May fly leaves hatch after the parent has died. What is it all about. What's the point? There is no point. That's just the way it is. It is neither good nor bad. Life is mainly simply inevitable. (41)

It has been a long time since I believed in Reality. I prefer the loveliness and the terror of my subjective experiences to those coldly scientific explanations which in the long run turn out to be no more real, and far less fun, than my own fantasies and musings.

Maintaining the illusion that I am in control is futile, lonely, and in the long run more always costly than the effort is worth.

In the long run we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.

So it is that there is nothing to be taught, but yet there is something to be learned.