Truth begins with the self

1. To generate anything above the mental capacities, we must remove the ego.
    
2. We must first know the self before studying the universe.
    
3. We live in a cloud of illusions and rarely realize that we are spinning this web of fiction for all the hours and days of our lives, unless we are fortunate or unfortunate enough to die slowly. Perhaps slow death may be the only moments of reality for the total life of many earthlings. Because the dying person is forced to face the fact that he is about to become zero.
    
4. Only those who believe there is a path will ever find one.
    
5. The person who has an ability to love has a much greater chance of immortality.
    
6. We must first know the self and find transcendence from confusion. It is not enough to read philosophy and Zen,-- we must find ourselves. We must find out who is talking, who is reading and studying, who is looking for survival. And we've got to find some safety from vacillating convictions.
    
7. What is reality? We can only know the truth by teaching ourselves to face the truth in all things. If we encourage our computer to come up with erroneous answers, because they are more desirable, then we are developing a computer that we may never be able to trust. Truth is that which Is.
    
8. The path to Truth begins with the self. We cannot properly isolate, identify, or analyze the self, because it is the subject about which we know the least.
    
9. You'll not find the umbilical cord by reading books. You find it by going inside yourself. By observing yourself.
    
10. IQ is not the greatest value. Rather, try to develop intuition.
     
11. You're on a desert with no railroad tracks. You will have to go on intuitional hunches.