The bottom line remains the same: you’re either awake or you’re not.One day, there it is. Nothing. No more enemies, no more battles.

Suffering just means you’re having a bad dream. Happiness means you’re having a good dream. Enlightenment means getting out of the dream altogether.

I don’t see it as my role to save or rescue anybody any more than regular people feel the need to rescue each other from sleeping and dreaming.

It’s ego – the false self – that exalts the guru and declares the teaching sacred, but nothing is exalted or sacred, only true or not true.

Enlightenment is the unprogrammed state.

Each daily task, is but the future in a mask.

If God wanted us in the ocean, he wouldn’t have made the land.

A man who serves language, however imperfectly, should always serve truth.

Optimism is life with sprinkles on top.

Once exposed, a secret loses all its power.

In a world filled with causes for worry and anxiety . . . we need the peace of God standing guard over our hearts and minds.

No question is more sublime than why there is a Universe: why there is anything rather than nothing

I feel like personally I have more drive now than I did then probably because I care more and also because I've reached the mid-life point.

Shia [LaBeouf] was great. He's just high energy. He's into really playing, and I had to be on my toes in a way that I wasn't necessarily expecting.

The imagination conjures gifts; what the ungrateful, unsentimental part of the mind has to do is to unwrap them, find fault with them, see them for what they are and then alter them.