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“Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist “— Epicurus

“The ordinary mortal – that is: he who has no right of primogeniture – fights the storms of life, throws himself into the billowing sea and seizes pearls of Promethean rights from its depths, and before his eyes, the inner form of the Idea appears in glory, and he creates with greater boldness, but he who is entitled to primogenital inheritance lets only drops fall on him, for fear he might strain a limb, and so seats himself in a washcloset.”

The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.-Douglas Adams

“Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm; but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves”.— T.S. Eliot

“Millions of people are suffering: they want to be loved but they don’t know how to love. And love cannot exist as a monologue; it is a dialogue, a very harmonious one.”— Osho

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"I speak of love that comes to mind: The moon is faithful, although blind; She moves in thought she cannot speak. Perfect care has made her bleak.

I never dreamed the sea so deep, The earth so dark; so long my sleep, I have become another child. I wake to see the world go wild.”- Allen Ginsberg, An Eastern Ballad

"He peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, instruments, stars, horses and individuals. A short time before he dies, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the lineaments of his own face.” - Jorge Luis Borges, The Aleph

"The Divine does not like to be shut up in a building. The Divine likes to be out in the open. It is right here in this very body. Each one of us is a miniature universe, a living shrine.” - Morihei Ueshiba, founder of the Japanese martial art of Aikido.

"We say “seeing is believing,” but actually, as Santayana pointed out, we are all much better at believing than at seeing. In fact, we are seeing what we believe nearly all the time and only occasionally seeing what we can’t believe.” - Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger I: Final Secret of the Illuminati

"Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer. What we see is the blossom, which passes. The rhizome remains.” - Carl Jung

"What could be more simple? Our bodies are but wave cycles of motion. Our bodies simulate eternal life by the eternal repetition of life-death cycles, but our bodies are not our Persons, or Beings, or our divine Selves.” - Walter Russell

"If the voice in your head is you, who’s the one listening to it?” - Byron Katie

"One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people’s minds.” - Frank Zappa

"For as the bats’ eyes are to daylight so is our intellectual eye to those truths which are, in their own nature, the most obvious of all.” - Aristotle, Metaphysics, I ( Brevior ) I.

"I long for something non-existent. It pains me, yet I know that the very moment I’ll stop, the human essence of me shall be gone. I will be gone; Darkness will triumph.”-Alfred De Musset, Complete Letters

"What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.”-Joseph Campbell

"In order to know the Truth, you have to be out of your mind.”- Vivian Amis

"The mind is beautiful because of the paradox. It uses itself to understand itself.” - Adam Elenbass

"I have always lived two lives simultaneously : that of the person hereditary influences forced me to assume, in a certain point in space and in a moment of time ; and the other, a formless Being, nameless, homeless, timeless, the very substance and breath of all life.”- Romain Rolland, The Journey Within, chap.2

“There is no such thing as philosophy-free science; there is only science whose philosophical baggage is taken on board without examination.”– Daniel Dennett, Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life

"I am indeed fully convinced that one must raise oneself into the ethereal realm of concepts if one would experience every aspect of existence. Whoever appreciates only the pleasures of the senses is unacquainted with life’s sweetest savors.”-Rudolf Steiner

"Love is space and time measured by the heart.” - Marcel Proust

“ God is a metaphor for a mystery that absolutely transcends all human categories of thought.” - Joseph Campbell

"We are travelers on a cosmic journey, stardust swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.” - Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

"If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson __________________

"The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill.”- Robert Anton Wilson

"On the cosmic scale, the strength of a being is not measured by its physical capability, but by its capacity to manipulate awareness. It follows that if we are to take the next evolutionary step, it must be done by means of discipline, determination, and strategy. Those are our weapons. In order to manipulate and understand the emanations which arrive to our senses, sorcerers develop the power of their attention, sharpening it through discipline to exquisite levels, which allow them to transcend human limitations and to fulfill all the possibilities of perception. Their concentration is so intense that they can penetrate the thick armor of appearances, and expose the essence of things.”- Carlos Castaneda, Encounters with the Nagua

"The collective unconscious surrounds us on all sides… it is more like an atmosphere in which we live than something that is found in us… Also, it does not by any means behave merely psychologically; in the cases of so-called synchronicity it proves to be a universal substrate present in the environment rather than a psychological premise. Wherever we come into contact with an archetype we enter into relationship with transconscious, metaphysic factors.”- Carl Jung

"Words and images are like shells, no less integral parts of nature than are the substances they cover, but better addressed to the eye & more open to observation. I would not say that substance exists for the sake of appearance, or faces for the sake of masks, or the passions for the sake of poetry & virtue. Nothing arises in nature for the sake of anything else; all these phases & products are involved equally in the round of existence.”- Santayana

"It is my personal opinion that in the science of the future reality will neither be ‘psychic’ nor ‘physical’ but somehow both and somehow neither.” - Wolfgang Pauli

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"Silence is a passageway between worlds. When our mind stays silent, incredible aspects of our being emerge. Starting from that moment, a person becomes a vehicle of intent, and all her acts begin to of ooze power.” - Don Juan Matus

"Meditation transports one from the transient world of matter to the real world of dreamings, visions, and imaginings where idea is and concepts are born.” - Walter Russell

"If you meditate regularly, even when you don’t feel like it, you will make great gains, for it will allow you to see how your thoughts impose limits on you. Your resistances to meditation are your mental prisons in miniature.” - Ram Dass

"One of the most commonly overlooked spiritual practices is daring to be completely honest with everyone you encounter. Some may say others cannot handle their honesty, but true honesty is not a strategy or a weapon of any kind. It is the willingness to be open and absolutely transparent in sharing how any moment feels in your heart. It has nothing to do with confrontation, accusation, or any form of blame. True honesty is the willingness to stand completely exposed, allowing the world to do what it may, and say what it will, only so you may know who you are – beyond all ideas.” -Matt Khan

"Dear Human: You’ve got it all wrong. You didn’t come here to master unconditional love. That is where you came from and where you’ll return. You came here to learn personal love. Universal love. Messy love. Sweaty love. Crazy love. Broken love. Whole love. Infused with divinity. Lived through the grace of stumbling. Demonstrated through the beauty of… messing up. Often. You didn’t come here to be perfect. You already are. You came here to be gorgeously human. Flawed and fabulous. And then to rise again into remembering. But unconditional love? Stop telling that story. Love, in truth, doesn’t need any other adjectives. It doesn’t require modifiers. It doesn’t require the condition of perfection. It only asks that you show up. And do your best. That you stay present and feel fully. That you shine and fly and laugh and cry and hurt and heal and fall and get back up and play and work and live and die as you. It’s enough. It’s plenty.” - Courtney A. Walsh

"You say you’ve heard that the masters of Eastern esoteric doctrines demand absolute secrecy about their teachings. Perhaps those masters are just indulging in being masters. I’m not a master, I’m only a warrior. So I really don’t know what a master feels like. It doesn’t matter what one reveals or what one keeps to oneself. Everything we do, everything we are, rests on our personal power. If we have enough of it, one word uttered to us might be sufficient to change the course of our lives. But if we don’t have enough personal power, the most magnificent piece of wisdom can be revealed to us and that revelation won’t make a damn bit of difference. I’m going to utter perhaps the greatest piece of knowledge anyone can voice. Let me see what you can do with it. Do you know that at this very moment you are surrounded by eternity? And do you know that you can use that eternity, if you so desire? There! Eternity is there! All around! Do you know that you can extend yourself forever in any of the directions I have pointed to? Do you know that one moment can be eternity? This is not a riddle; it’s a fact, but only if you mount that moment and use it to take the totality of yourself forever in any direction. You didn’t have this knowledge before, now you do. I have revealed it to you, but it doesn’t make a bit of difference, because you don’t have enough personal power to utilize my revelation. Yet if you did have enough power, my words alone would serve as the means for you to round up the totality of yourself and to get the crucial part of it out of the boundaries in which it is contained. Your body is the boundary I’m talking about. One can get out of it. We are a feeling, an awareness encased here. We are luminous beings and for a luminous being only personal power matters.” - Carlos Castaneda , Don Juan’s Teachings

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“I wish I could say that racism and prejudice were only distant memories. We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust…We must dissent because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better.”-Thurgood Marshall 

“It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life." - Julius Caesar

“How can a three-pound mass of jelly that you can hold in your palm imagine angels, contemplate the meaning of infinity, and even question its own place in the cosmos? Especially awe inspiring is the fact that any single brain, including yours, is made up of atoms that were forged in the hearts of countless, far-flung stars billions of years ago. These particles drifted for eons and light-years until gravity and change brought them together here, now. These atoms now form a conglomerate- your brain- that can not only ponder the very stars that gave it birth but can also think about its own ability to think and wonder about its own ability to wonder. With the arrival of humans, it has been said, the universe has suddenly become conscious of itself. This, truly, it the greatest mystery of all.” -VS Ramachandran

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