Ideology is a certain unique experience of the universe and your place in it, to put it in standard terms, which serves the production of the existing power relations and blah blah blah.

What if the way we perceive a problem is already part of the problem?

Words are never 'only words'; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do.

If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them.

The threat today is not passivity, but pseudo-activity, the urge to "be active", to "participate", to mask the Nothingness of what goes on.

I already am eating from the trash can all the time. The name of this trash can is ideology. The material force of ideology makes me not see what I am effectively eating.

We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.

Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures.

Atheism is not the denial of the existence of God, but having doubts as to whether God is conscious.

Thinking begins when you ask really difficult questions.

The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire.

As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.

Darkness is subject to light, and can never manifest itself in the presence of light.

We begin to become divine by learning to love like the divine loves. And how does the divine love? It loves everyone-including you-freely and without conditions.

Being of sound mind I spent every cent I ever had.

I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.

I have a kind of remarkable ability to, for want of a better phrase, get what I want. I kind of project. I guess it's called dreaming.

Your enemy can be your greatest teacher.

Don't be afraid of change, because it is leading you to a new beginning.

It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.

At a time when so many scholars in the world are calculating, is it not desirable that some, who can, dream ?