Jed Mckenna Quotes

#1. 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

#2. The gunslinger's stomach seemed to rise painfully against his heart, but his face didn't change.

Stephen King

#3. 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

#4. If you have a flop movie, so what? And if you have a hit movie, it's 'so what,' too - it's on to the next movie.

Eddie Murphy

#5. In the eyes of God all men, indeed all creatures, may be equal: but the divine law of the individual is to maintain and to defend his individuality.

Houston Stewart Chamberlain

#6. 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

#7. 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.

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#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. When a consumer derives value - especially from something that was given to him for free - he becomes the best kind of evangelist.

Mitch Joel

#12. If there is one thing that I have come to hate more than the gods, it is time.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

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

Jed McKenna

#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. If you're entering a room for the first time, do it the way you would in life - look around; see how they have the furniture arranged. If your character is meeting another character for the first time, meet them the way you would in life.

Charles Nelson Reilly

#21. Sport, Madame la Comtesse, sport," asserted Lord Antony, with his jovial, loud and pleasant voice; "we are a nation of sportsmen, you know, and just now it is the fashion to pull the hare from between the teeth of the hound." "Ah,

Emmuska Orczy

#22. Inside the room, a man and a woman were wrestling. They were both naked.

George R R Martin

#23. I know that I need honesty from the people I interview. I also know that the truth is more interesting than made up stuff, and also, people don't connect with you if you're not honest.

Neil Strauss

#24. Oracle's latest database, version 12c, was specifically designed for the cloud. Oracle 12c makes all your Oracle applications multitenant applications without you having to make any changes whatsoever to your applications.

Larry Ellison

#25. 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

#26. 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

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

Jed McKenna