Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world. – Mary Garden
We are pre-disposed for fantasy, there is a natural impulse for human beings to want to get off their heads or out of their heads in something in a substance or a drink or an idea or a religion which will comfort them and make life exciting. – Tom Baker
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. – Mark Twain, quoted in Autobiography with Letters by William L. Phelps