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Quotes from the book:Nothing can trouble you but your own imagination. (I AM THAT p.113) General knowledge develops the mind, no doubt. But if you are going to spend your life in amassing knowledge, you build a wall round yourself. To go beyond the mind, a well-furnished mind is not needed. (p50) The window is the absence of the wall, and it gives air and light because it is empty. Be empty of al mental content, of all imagination and effort, and the very absence of obstacles will cause reality to rush in. (p260) Leave it all behind you. Forget it. Go forth, unburdened with ideas and beliefs. Abandon all verbal structures, all relative truth, all tangible objectives. (p340) All are mere words, of what use are they to you? You are entangled in the web of verbal definitions and formulations. Go beyond your concepts and ideas; in the silence of desire and thought the truth is found. (p295) Too much analysis leads you nowhere. There is in you the core of being which is beyond analysis, beyond the mind. You can know it in action only. The legitimate function of the mind is to tell you what is not. But if you want possitive knowledge, you must go beyond the mind. (p341) Before you can know anything directly, non-verbally, you must know the knower. So far, you took the mind for the knower, but it is not so. The mind clogs you up with images and ideas, which leave scars in memory. You take remembering to be knowledge. True knowledge is ever fresh, new, unexpected. It wells up from within. When you know what you are, you also are what you know. Between knowing and being there is no gap. (p520) Consciousness, being a product of conditions and circumstances, depends on them and changes along with them. What is independent, uncreated, timeless and changeless and yet ever new and fresh is beyond the mind. When the mind thinks of it, the mind dissolves and only happiness remains. (p488) [With self-awareness] you grow more intelligent. In awareness you learn, in self-awareness you learn about yourself. Of course, you can only learn what you are not. To know what you are, you must go beyond the mind. Awareness is the point at which the mind reaches out beyond itself into reality. In awareness you seek not what pleases, but what is true. (p346) Stop making use of your mind and see what happens. Do this one thing thoroughly. That is all. (p197)RSD instructor says:This is the best book I have read…It was recommended to me by xxx last year, and it blows away any self help book (including Tony) IMO.People always have mixed opinions about it, because it isn’t a do ‘x’ and get ‘y’ result in the same way as Tony Robbins/Brian Tracey etc, but when you really get this book it will change the way you think for ever. David Deida doesn’t come close to it, nothing can…I know plenty of people who don’t like it so much, probably because they can’t process how it is possible to be completely internally validated but at the same time not just live in a cave. They just see the buddhist dudes sat all day meditating. They can’t grasp how this can work in the real world whilst still going out and doing stuff (which is a distinction that becomes very clear btw)I think in some ways it forms the crux of understanding unreactive game. It goes beyond just ‘be in your own reality’, because to actually live on a level of pure internal validation you become that any way. Its about being, the idea that you are already good enough, and that you don’t need to add on layers of stuff, you just need to let go of certain things. I would recommend this book for any PUA.One key lesson from the book for me was the idea of being detached from things. Thats why I never really care about what ‘pick up system’ someone uses, because I could use the same techniques and be completely indifferent to the techniques/content itself. Once people grasp this and get a certain level of internal validation it becomes completely irrelevant