The White Lotus Quotes (Season 3)

I just don’t think at this age, I’m meant to live an uncomfortable life. I don’t have the will.

Sometimes we wake with anxiety. An edgy energy. What will happen today? What is in store for me? So many questions. We want resolution, solid earth under our feet. So, we take life into our own hands. We take action, yeah? Our solutions are temporary. They are quick fix. They create more anxiety, more suffering. There is no resolution to life’s questions. It is easier to be patient once we finally accept there is no resolution.

Confidence, Loch. Okay, that’s how you get people to do what you want. Because most people don’t know what they want, and a lot of them… Here’s a little secret. They just wanna be used.

When you’re born, you are like a single drop of water, flying upward, separated from the one, giant consciousness. You get older. You descend back down. You die. You land back into the water, become one with the ocean again. No more separated. No more suffering. One consciousness. Death is a happy return, like coming home.

Violence, aggression, anger stem from same source. Fear. The only good faith response is to sit with your feelings. Violence does spiritual harm to victim and to perpetrator.

The secret to life is knowing when to stop.

No one’s gonna make you a man. Okay? You gotta do it yourself.[to Lochlan]

No one in the history of the world has lived better than we have. Even the old kings and queens. The least we can do is enjoy it. If we don’t, it’s offensive. It’s an offense to all the billions of people who can only dream that one day they could live like we do.[to Piper]

Just because people are rich doesn’t mean they’re not trashy.

It’s better to go for what you want in life and get rejected than have the shot and not take it.

If that strange man is going to have my baby, he’d better be the best Buddhist in China.

Identity is a prison. No one is spared this prison. Rich man, poor man, success or failure. We build the prison, lock ourselves inside, then throw away the key.