Each one of us is alone in the world… We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them. – W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, 1919

Once your awareness becomes a flame, it burns up the whole slavery that the mind has created. – Osho

My flag is raised high today. For others to see, sure. But more so to find which way my wind is blowing. Almost time to chart a course. – Jeb Dickerson, jebdickerson.com

There is as much difference between us and ourselves as between us and others. – Michel de Montaigne