Most people believe that who they are today is pretty much who they will still be in the future.

 Our minds trick us into thinking our entire history, every choice, every change and chance, has led to this specific moment, 

what we call now.

 

If you talk to God you're religious. 

If God talks to you, you're psychotic

 

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. 

And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. 

If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function

 

My house says to me, "Do not leave me, for here dwells your past."

And the road says to me, "Come and follow me, for I am your future."

And I say to both my house and the road, 

"I have no past, nor have I a future. 

If I stay here, there is a going in my staying;

 and if I go there is a staying in my going.

 Only love and death will change all things.

 

Alive, 

any of you alive—let's take a poll—how many of you know you're really alive?! 

 Plastic soldiers in a miniature dirt war! 

C'mon! How many of you people know you're alive?

 How many of you people know you're really alive!