Best Jed Mckenna Quotes

#1. Enlightenment isn't when you go there; it's when there comes here.

Jed McKenna

#2. The you that you think of as you (and that thinks of you as you, and so on) is not you, it's just the character that the underlying truth of you is dreaming into existence. Enlightenment isn't in the character, it's in the underlying truth.

Jed McKenna

#3. There's nothing left to contend against and nothing left that must be done, and there will never be anything that must be done ever again.

Jed McKenna

#4. It's just been a long week, that's all." "It's monday night, Jess." "My point exactly.

Scott Westerfeld

#5. Once you start seeing this place for the madhouse it is, you can't stop seeing it that way. It's everywhere, everyone. It doesn't make any sense. That's not life. It can't be. I don't know what it is, but it's not life.

Jed McKenna

#6. Elizabeth Hurley and I had a lot of fun together. She's a very beautiful, confident woman.

Brendan Fraser

#7. I never feel as though I'm ever, ever alone.

Chita Rivera

#8. There is no such thing as a rational person. We are emotional creatures with some token capacity for reason.

Jed McKenna

#9. The belief that something is wrong is the fire under the ass of humanity, is how I explain it to Sarah.

Jed McKenna

#10. The point is to wake up, not to earn a Ph.D. In waking up.

Jed McKenna

#11. 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.

Jed McKenna

#12. and was now bending over the golden effigy of a bat, perhaps Zotz, the Underworld god.

Deborah Jackson

#13. 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.

Jed McKenna

#14. 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.

Jed McKenna

#15. How well opposed to grand Theft Auto are you?

Stephenie Meyer

#16. I am ceaselessly occupied with the question of the constitution of radiation ... This quantum question is so incredibly important and difficult that everyone should busy himself on it.

Albert Einstein

#17. All fear is ultimately fear of no-self.

Jed McKenna

#18. I don't have something you don't; you believe something I don't.

Jed McKenna

#19. Enlightenment is the unprogrammed state.

Jed McKenna

#20. But don't get caught out there looking goofy. It's weird. When you do something that stinks, it's going to last forever on the Internet. There's always someone in the audience with a camera phone and if you're not 100%, you're going to be watching yourself on YouTube.

Jamie Foxx

#21. My son Cooper has just turned ten and the sarcasm fairy has already started to take up residence inside his body. Not only am I living with my mother - again! - but I've also got her mini-me to contend with.

Melissa Rivers

#22. With our limited life spans, we mere mortals have to figure out what best to do with our time so that when it ends we aren't ashamed to put our name on it, call it our life.

Joey W. Hill

#23. How did it get so late so soon? It's night before it's afternoon. December is here before it's June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon? Dr. Seuss

Jed McKenna

#24. When we believe in the world outside of ourselves, gain is often perceived as good and loss as bad. When we stop believing in a world external to self. that reverses: gain becomes bad and loss becomes good. Nothing we can lose was ever ours in the first place. All we can ever lose is illusion.

Jed McKenna

#25. The journey you start now can take you on the adventure of a lifetime ... it's up to you. Education is a life-long process. Determine now to never stop learning and to never give up on your dreams.

Carol Edwards

#26. Only themselves understand themselves, and the like of themselves, As Souls only understand Souls. Walt Whitman

Jed McKenna

#27. We slip into the lives that are laid out for us the way children slip into the clothes their mother lays out for them in the morning. No one decides. We don't live our lives by choice, but by default.

Jed McKenna