"You are not just a meaningless fragment in an alien universe, briefly suspended between life and death, allowed a few short-lived pleasures followed by pain and ultimate annihilation. Underneath your outer form, you are connected with something so vast, so immeasurable and sacred, that it cannot be spoken of - yet I am speaking of it now. I am speaking of it now not to give you something to believe in but to show you how you can know it for yourself." ~ Eckhart Tolle

“But there are moments when one has to choose between living one’s own life, fully, entirely, completely — or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.” — Oscar Wilde

“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.” — Anatole France

"Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.'" - Kurt Vonnegut

“Psychedelics inspired many of us to take a more positive, expansive view of our potential as human beings. Psychologists transcended Freud. Sociologists and political scientists moved beyond Marx. Cynics, skeptics and hard-core materialists suddenly found themselves interested in the spiritual quest. People of faith began to see beyond the doctrine and dogmas of their own religious traditions to envision a more inclusive understanding of the contemplative core that runs through all of the world religions.”

- Don Lattin

• ''And it is this understanding²when it is so clear as to be startling²that is the substance of unitive realization. When it is indubitably recognized that your nature and the nature of the absolute are fundamentally the same, indivisible nature, this is the ³recognition of one's true identity": the realization that any and all identity is eclipsed by an actuality which renders separative distinctions ultimately meaningless. Such a realization, or non-dual perspective or awareness, cannot help but have a profound effect on one's consideration of ³personal individuality´. One cannot recognize that truth, of all- pervasive indivisibility, and continue to maintain the fiction of separate personification²of the 'me' that was born and the 'I' which dies. This fruit of the realization²that the absolute essence of all being does not ³come´ from some place nor 'go' anywhere²quenches our deepest, final fear, the fear of extinction. Then the liberated may, indeed, ³take no thought for the morrow.''

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“The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.” — Theodore Rubin