“You never change things by fighting the existing reality.

“I am responsible for my own existence and happiness.”

“The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.”

“Ceremony-the wine of human existence" - Morris R. Cohen”

You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society private property is already done away with for nine-tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine-tenths. You reproach us, therefore, with intending to do away with a form of property, the necessary condition for whose existence is the non-existence of any property for the immense majority of society.In one word, you reproach us with intending to do away with your property. Precisely so: that is just what we intend.

Refutations of the views of inherently existent production are not just refutations of rival systems but should be taken as a branch of the process of overcoming one's own innate sense that things are inherently produced. The innate non-analytical intellect does not conceive cause and effect to be either the same, or inherently different, or both, or neither; however, if the objects that the intellect misconceives as inherently existent did in fact inherently exist, they would necessarily exist in one of these four ways. Thus, through eliminating these four possibilities, the inherently existent products that are the objects of this innate ignorance are shown to be non-existent. By attacking in this way the falsely conceived object, the falsely conceiving subject is gradually overcome. The false subject is removed by overcoming belief in the false object.

“Seeds of Peace exists in the real world. It exists among people who've been taught to hate each other, and it's finding some basis for them to coexist with one another.”

“When you see things that have stalled, it's because of price. The million-dollar one-bedroom is not a fact of life. It exists, but it exists in special buildings with something that is beyond the ordinary.”

“The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.”

“With a practical joke, you do one of two things. You convince people that something exists when it doesn't, or you convince people that something doesn't exist when it does.”