Acceptance. Acceptance of the impermanence of being. And acceptance of the imperfect nature of being, or possibly the perfect nature of being, depending on how one looks at it. Acceptance that this is not a rehearsal. That this is it.

When did you ever go to a drug dealer, and the drug dealer said, 'you know, you should come back tomorrow, this is not very pure.' It doesn't happen.

I think of religions as franchise operations. Like chicken franchise operations. But that doesn't mean there's no chicken, right?

All any drug amounts to is tweaking the incoming data. You have to be incredibly self-centered or pathetic to be satisfied with simply tweaking the incoming da…