The Dude De Ching Quotes

“I am large”
― Oliver Benjamin, The Dude De Ching: New Annotated Edition

“it’s important to take stock of our modus operandi before we forget memento mori and end up owing ourselves a mea culpa. If we make the mutatis mutandis now”
― Oliver Benjamin, The Dude De Ching: New Annotated Edition

“The world is every bit stupefying, But it’s far fucking out. Am I wrong?”
― Oliver Benjamin, The Dude De Ching: A Dudeist Interpretation of the Tao Te Ching

“The Dude merely reminds us to appreciate the merits of simplicity and serenity—the very things which we enjoyed as infants”
― Oliver Benjamin, The Dude De Ching: New Annotated Edition

“The simple pleasures in life can seem tasteless to those who are constantly pushing the envelope of experience.”
― Oliver Benjamin, The Dude De Ching: New Annotated Edition

“Indifference”
― Oliver Benjamin, The Dude De Ching: New Annotated Edition

“Wealth arises not from riches”
― Oliver Benjamin, The Dude De Ching: New Annotated Edition

“For some of us”
― Oliver Benjamin, The Dude De Ching: New Annotated Edition

“My mind is foolish, indeed rather vulgar. Aimless as the restless winds, I seem to have no direction at all. I suppose I am rather different from everyone else. Yet I am content. Everything I need is right here.”
― Oliver Benjamin, The Dude De Ching: A Dudeist Interpretation of the Tao Te Ching

“As temptations avail themselves to you Can you remain steadfast as a mother bird in her nest? As you grow wise and knowledgeable about many things, Can you retain the modesty of an amateur?”
― Oliver Benjamin, The Dude De Ching: New Annotated Edition