The interiority of a human being is a very dangerous place

I think, as human being, we should have a near-death-experience once per quarter

Where there is attachment, there is interference.

What you will become is who you believe yourself to be. What you will become is what you cannot stop yourself from becoming. What you will achieve are the things that you cannot help but achieve. What you will accomplish are the things that you cannot live without accomplishing.

The ultimate parenting becomes not being a parent at all... The ultimate parenting becomes one in which you divorce yourself from the need or the desire for an outcome.

Idol worship isn't meaningful; putting these guys on pedestals isn't meaningful; trying to learn from successful people isn't meaningful. The only thing meaningful is to discover who you are.

The search for happiness and pleasure is the most fruitless search of a human life. It is the single most critical reason why a human being lives in suffering.

When someone is genuinely on the path of truth, he's on the path of truth from the very first step. When the person is on a path to prescription, he's on the prescription path from the very first step, and those paths do not meet. So, it's the nature of the path; it isn't the progress bar. And the reason that you have progress bars is because no one gets anywhere, and the reason that no one gets anywhere is because prescriptions don't get you anywhere.

Nobody should put anyone on a pedestal. Every human being is a completely screwed up human being, okay? Every human being from top to bottom is totally messed up.

Kapil's ideal business partner - “I would be partial to someone who had a real objection, almost a hatred for the status quo…someone who would be EMBARRASSED to follow the status quo. That would be a foundational element I’d look for.”

I think what needs to be understood is that everyone is mentally deranged—and that isn't a derogatory statement; I genuinely mean that. Everyone has psychopathology; people have it to just different degrees. There's no such thing as normal. Normal is just an agreed upon normal according to the greatest prevalence in society.

The perfect decision is a pure decision. It is the decision that has no interference or reactivity.

If you have 10 people in a room… if you have 1 in those 10 who has that unique and rare DNA, and they’re an ‘outside the box’ human, he needs to run like hell from the other 9

There isn't a single group in the world that has wisdom. Even if you go to a Buddhist monastery, that group doesn't have wisdom ... Groups are a dumbing down phenomenon. Groups are a regression to the mean phenomenon.

At the end of the day, the person that you can rely upon most is yourself ... Especially as an adolescent, friendship is a disaster because the environment, the culture, and the generation in which we live in now is the single most degraded generation ever to walk the face of the Earth.

You cannot go to business conferences and meet with common people in the business community to discuss these business and leadership ideas, methods, and techniques, five ways to lead and be kind to your employees, how not to say this and that... people are not serious. They're just not serious, they're juvenile.

In general, leaders tend to be too interested in what others think of him ... As long as he is influenced by what others say, as long as he has insecurity about how he may be viewed, then he will not be anywhere near his ultimate with regards to performance.

As long as you focus your efforts upon trying to change the mind of another… you are wasting your time ... There are only so many years that we as humans live, and those years are most effectively spent perfecting ourselves. And if something is ever going to get across, it is going to get across through osmosis much less than instruction.

It’s genuinely about seeing the emptiness of all things and that nothing has any significance … The ultimate truth is that there is nothing. There is no greater truth than that.

A boss is a devil .... It's better to be homeless than to ever have to ask someone 'Can I do this? Can I do that?' That's not a job; that's slavery.