Self-Improvement vs True Arrival

When someone is genuinely on the path of truth, he's on the path of truth from the very first step. When the person is on a path to prescription, he's on the prescription path from the very first step, and those paths do not meet. So, it's the nature of the path; it isn't the progress bar. And the reason that you have progress bars is because no one gets anywhere, and the reason that no one gets anywhere is because prescriptions don't get you anywhere.

At the end of the day, the person that you can rely upon most is yourself ... Especially as an adolescent, friendship is a disaster because the environment, the culture, and the generation in which we live in now is the single most degraded generation ever to walk the face of the Earth.

That's one of the greatest milestones of freedom that there is—to be completely independent of the opinions of others and, even more critically, the next level is to be completely independent of the opinions of yourself.

The poor man is most helped when he's inspired. He is most helped when he is compelled to get up onto his own two feet because that will last him for the rest of his life; handouts don't.

The only way to really help anyone else is to understand yourself.

There are no business problems. There are no sports problems. There are only human problems.

The only sincerity is the thing that compels you to do what you do. Because whatever action that you take, that is your natural desire. What you do is a reflection of what you really feel inside.

There's no good or bad, wrong or right; there's just the truth. And the truth is that very, very, very, very, very, very, very few human beings on this planet are looking for the truth—and that isn't a bad thing or a good thing.

Anything that you attach to in this life, you'll pay a price—whether it's a thing or whether it's a person.

Those who don't are not going to, and those who do can't help but do.

I don't believe anything because it's not about belief. Human beings like to hang on to terms and ideas and concepts, and they turn those into gods, and they begin worshiping at the feet of a concept.

If you're beholden to ideas and concepts, then you don't really have the eyes to see the entire truth.

For the most people, they don't really care that prescription won't get them there because they're not really looking to get anywhere, right? They enjoy, as you said, the process; they enjoy the practicing.

Mistakes are the natural result of lack of understanding. And a lack of understanding is, to a large and significant degree, the natural result of wanting to seek prescriptions instead of understanding.