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Here are the 20 best quotes curated from the transcript, capturing the essence of the conversation on mortality, the psychological mind, and consciousness:

On Mortality & Time

1. "Mortality essentially means we are on a limited leash of time. Once you know and you're conscious every moment of your life that it's a limited amount of time, you will only do what truly matters to you."

2. "Nobody is negotiating life or death. People are only negotiating for a little more time."

3. "This is the nature of life—how strong this is, how many things it can do, and at the same time, how fragile it is. One exhalation, next one did not happen—poof."

4. "If you're conscious and you know there is very little time for this miracle, you wouldn't waste one moment doing one bit of nonsense that doesn't matter to you."

On Life vs. Psychological Drama

5. "Most people never experience life—only the drama in their head: their thoughts, their emotions, their ideas, their opinions, their philosophies."

6. "If you don't reverse this, you will neither know life nor death. You will only know psychological drama."

7. "What you call as life is also death. Right now as we sit here, we are all dying slowly. One day it'll be complete."

8. "Fear of death and attempts to avoid death... You will not ever avoid death. You will only stifle life."

9. "Life is bloody inefficient, isn't it? However you improve it, there's something more to do. But death is super efficient. It doesn't need your invite, your help, or your support."

On the Mind & Suffering

10. "What we call as psychological is essentially made up by us. So when you are making up things, why don't you make something that's pleasant and wonderful for you?"

11. "Whether you call it stress, anxiety, depression, nonsense, or madness—your intelligence has turned against you."

12. "It took millions of years of an evolutionary project to get you this big brain, and now you don't know how to handle it. If you remove half of it, you will be quite peaceful."

13. "Can you think something more than the data that you already possess? It is just permutations and combinations of the same thing. You can do it, but a machine can do it better."

14. "Your intelligence is capable of creating anything... and above all, you have started believing it's true. Otherwise, why would you suffer it?"

15. "If you're doing it consciously and you know you are doing it, whatever the hell you're doing is not a problem. The problem is you don't know you're doing it."

On Consciousness & Identity

16. "Consciousness does not happen in your mind. Your body and mind happen in consciousness."

17. "What you call as aliveness and what you call as consciousness are not two different things. Your consciousness is your aliveness. Your aliveness is your consciousness."

18. "When the energies are in a dynamic state, we call it life. When it becomes inert, we call it death. Absolute inertia is death."

19. "Whatever you have gathered can be yours. Can it be you? Your body you gathered, the content of the mind you gathered... it's yours, but it can't be you."

20. "What is you? What is not you? You don't know what is you. At least what is not you—keep it aside before you go to bed, and you will see thoughts will just fall away."