"All nations, individuals, planets and even all cosmic systems are sustained by one energy. This one energy is the common denominator of all that EXISTS. If therefore we could once come to serve that ENERGY, as IT wants to be served, we would end nearly all of the conflicts and confusion of mortal existence." "Your grades become more important than what it is that you are studying. What you own, what clothes you wear and so on, then we become obsessed with this kind of absurdity. This is the false self at work. The third thing that the ego teaches us is that I am what others think of me. I am my reputation; so becoming obsessed with our reviews, others' opinions, approval. The Tao teaches us that what you think of me is none of my business."