Oli Anderson

“I decided to give up meaningless sex, but then I remembered that everything is meaningless.”

“When one dream dies we replace it with another.”

“The human condition is essentially the conflict between the human need for control and a universe that provides little if any of it. Once we accept this and get into the flow of life, we are free and, paradoxically, able to get better results.”

“Only ever doing what feels comfortable is a form of suicide.”

“Dialogue teaches you to listen through your emotions, not to become distracted or distanced from the truth because of them.”

“Dialogue is about creating awareness through self-observation; it starts from the inside out, not the outside in.”

“There are two types of 'busy': 1)Constantly distracting yourself from what is true. 2) Constantly working to create something real.”

“This world is your world but that doesn't mean you can always stop it from burning.”

“Having problems doesn't make you noble or virtuous, it makes you human. Nobility and virtue comes from the way that you handle your problems and either learn to move past them or live with them if out of your control.”

“Idealism + Inaction = Depression”

“One of the most human things that you can do is reach out for the stars knowing that you might not ever touch them; we are all perfectly imperfect, but to live knowing so is to be a fulfilled human being.”

“Unleash in the right time and place before you explode at the wrong time andplace.”

“Dialogue helps us to acknowledge that we see the world not as it is, but as we are.”

“If philosophy gets you lost in the labyrinth of symbols that distance us from reality, then it is part of the problem; if it motivates positive action that can create a better world, philosophy is usually a gift.”

“Our modern day, hyper-rat-race culture often leads us to mistakenly confuse'busy' for 'success'. The truth of the matter is that if you're constantly having to tell people how busy you are and how overwhelmed with work or stressed you are, what you're really telling them is that you can't cope with what's on your plate. You're ‘failing’.”

“Remember: knowing originates on the inside, knowledge on the outside. Certain facts and concepts may change, come into being, disappear, or be replaced, but what it is to be a human being will never really be all that different. Every person to ever live, now and the whole of history, has had a rich and elaborate world of inner experience, but it has mainly been flesh upon the same skeleton. We are allborn, come to terms with the world, and then come to terms with coming to terms with the world, as we go through the stages of puberty, old age, death andmaking sense of it all in between. We all live the same process in different ways. Some live it longer than others and some cover more ground. But that's it.”

“If humans created it then it is the product of a choice that somebody made. And if it was chosen it can be changed.”

“Dialogue with the self is the source of all insight and insight is the only thing that can change your life.”

“Dialogue reminds us that we can question to build, not only to doubt or deconstruct.”

“See yourself as a long-term work in progress, not a short-term project of preservation.”