We come to this work because the alternative, being consumed by the effort to ignore the mystery of being, is no longer acceptable. – Ken McLeod, Wake Up To Your Life: Discovering the Buddhist Path of Attention
I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark, though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced. – Henry David Thoreau, “Solitude,” Walden, 1854
Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there. – Eric Hoffer, Passionate State of Mind, 1955
