Pain can only Feed on Pain
“Pain can only feed on pain. Pain cannot feed on joy. It finds it quite indigestible.”
Falling in Love
“What is commonly called ‘falling in love’ is in most cases an intensification of egoistic wanting and needing. You become addicted to another person, or rather to your image of that person. It has nothing to do with true love, which contains no wanting whatsoever.”
Joy arises from within You
“Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.”
The Mind Loves Problems
“Just as dogs love to chew bones, the mind loves to get its teeth into problems. That’s why it does crossword puzzles and builds atom bombs.”
Dogmas
“Dogmas –religious, political, scientific– arise out of erroneous belief that thought can encapsulate reality or truth. Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of ‘I know’.”