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"I do not care for the body, I love the timid soul, the blushing, shrinking soul; it hides, for it is afraid, and the bold, obtrusive body— Pray, marm, did you call me? We are very small... I think we grow still smaller — this tiny, insect life the portal to another; it seems strange — strange indeed." ~Emily Dickinson, 1851

“Most of American life is driving somewhere and then driving back wondering why the hell you went.”--John Updike, "Rabbit at Rest"

“The “end of a world” never is and never can be anything but the end of an illusion.”
― René Guénon

“Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you’ve ceased to live.” ---Mark Twain

"Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy."---- Henri Frederic Amiel

“Maybe that’s enlightenment enough: to know that there is no final resting place of the mind; no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom...is realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go.”—Anthony Bourdain

Few poor souls recover from the spacetime vortex of needing their glasses in order to find their glasses. Many simply vanish never to return!

“Those in power have made it so we have to pay simply to exist on the planet. We have to pay for a place to sleep, and we have to pay for food. If we don't, people with guns come and force us to pay. That's violent.”― Derrick Jensen, Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization

“It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.”― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear