First Read: May 2020

Second Read: April 2023 — still sooo good

On Waking Up

• Though everything is a mess, all is well
• Most poeple never get to see that all is well becase they are asleep. they are having a nightmare

Will I be of Help to you in This Retreat?

• The point is that most of what we feel and think we conjure up for ourselves in our heads, including this business of being helped by people
• People don't really want to grow up, people don't really want to change, people don't really want to be happy.
• Don't try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it irritates the pig. Like the businessman who goes into a bar, sits down, and sees this fellow with a banana in his ear.

On Wanting Happiness

• We don't really want to be unconditionally happy. I'm ready to be happy provided I have this and that and the other thing. We cannot conceive of being happy without them. We'v ebeen taught to place our happiness in them.
• People have to suffer enough in a relationship so that they get disillusioned with all relationships.
• Most people go to a psychiatrist or a psychologist to get relief. To get relief. Not to get out of it.
• "Every great idea starts out as a blasphemy"
• You want to wake up. You're putting on a great act and you don't even know it.

Netiher is Renunciation the Solution