Quotes

• If we insist on using the word ‘illusion,’ we must understand it as an approximation of Reality.

• If you truly became nothingness, you could not experience nothingness, because experiencing it would already require that something remains.

• Freedom raises a fundamental question: freedom from what? From the laws of physics? From cause and effect?

• The word ‘should’ suggests a fork in reality: the belief that reality could have split into another version where things happened differently.

• A beginner in chess knows only a few moves. A grandmaster knows thousands of moves. But in every case, the player will choose what he believes is the single best move.

• The ego is an attachment to certain stories we associate with our identity.

• Reality is everything. There is nothing outside of it. Since nothing exists outside reality, nothing external can influence reality.

• What we perceive as multiple independent causes is only a chain of events derived from a single root cause.

• Even if a decision-maker had absolute free will, he would still choose what he believes is the single best possible decision.

• Only one possible choice is allowed: the one believed to be the best.

• When we make a decision in the present, we always make what we believe is the best decision based on our current understanding of reality.