Pleasure seeking

The pursuit of pleasure, whether it’s a needle in the arm or a trip to St. Barts, always takes place against a background of pain. True happiness can only be found inside the self.

Heart garden

How does your heart garden grow? In silence.

Pitchman

The essential thing to know about the ego—that is, the voice in the head which never shuts up—is that it only wants what’s worst for you. It’s a pitchman for death.

Everything that matters

Joy is timeless, still and two meters down. Pleasure is pincered by cause and effect. Everything that matters encourages us to look inside ourselves.

In the vertical

The deeper it goes, the quieter it gets.