"We can only be here. We can't leave. We are always here."
- Steve Hagen
"If your idea of good opposes something else, you can be sure that [it] is not absolute or certain."
"Belief is at best an educated, informed conjecture about Reality."
"Good and bad aren't absolutes. They are beliefs, judgements, ideas based on limited knowledge as well as on the inclinations of our minds."
"Good times come and go. And bad times do the same."
"[E]ven in getting the wonderful things we long for, we tend to live in want of something more[.]"
"We have all sorts of stories about heaven and hell, about oblivion and nothingness, about 'coming back,' and so on. But they are all stories."
"Belief may serve as a useful stopgap measure in the absence of actual experience, but once you see … [it] becomes unnecessary."
"There's nothing you can find - … nothing you can even imagine – that doesn't originate, develop, or exist in relation to other things."
"We imagine that things come into existence, endure for a while, and then pass out of existence"