There's no commodity we can take with us. There is only our lives, whether we live them wisely or whether we live them in ignorance. And this is everything.

Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.

We can't give the truth to someone as an object, we can only point to it, inviting inspection. It is in that spirit that we can hear or read a teaching and then look at our own lives, at our own experiences to see whether anything might have been revealed about them.

Bandwagons roll through our lives. It's up to you whether you jump on them unquestioningly or jump on them to overturn them and subvert them.

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

We need to respect the oceans and take care of them as if our lives depended on it. Because they do.