The Lessons of a Life
| At age 1: | Ice cream tastes good. |
| At age 9: | Alcohol tastes bad. |
| At age 11: | Altered states of consciousness exist. |
| At age 18: | Humans are hardly the most powerful beings around. |
| At age 20: | The FBI indirectly caused my father's death. Ah, how far Big Brother extends! |
| At age 23: | Love contains a healing alchemy. |
| At age 25: | Observing a dead corpse closely is an excellent chance to reflect on our fate. |
| At age 27: | One of the most precious gifts is trust. |
| At age 28: | Falling in love is easy; staying in love requires disciplined work. |
| At age 32: | For brief moments, we can be like gods. However, sometimes we are utterly blind and petty. |
| At age 38: | Shopping is a form of voting: by purchasing things you help them manifest. |
| At age 40: | All people are storytellers and after they are convinced their story is "right," generally they're locked into that narrative. |
| At age 44: | The whole notion of "self" is an invention: a useful myth, but fiction nonetheless.. |
| At age 48: | No human is infallible; to worship another as "enlightened" amounts to idolatry. |
| At age 49: | We have negotiate with many selves on many levels, a task that's often difficult to do smoothly. |
| At age 51: | Even after a person passes away, part of them is still with you when you remember them. |
| At age 52: | It's better to understand your enemies than to condemn them. |
| At age 55: | Too much intellectualization cuts us off from direct experience. |
| At age 58: | The wheel of life moves in mysterious circles. |
| At age 66: | There's still much to learn . . . |
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