"...empathize with
the adventurer."
Me short-quoting J. Marmysz

"You're the only person
who can decide
if my truth is true for you
or if it is nonsense."
R. Bach

"Ditto on my nonsense."
M. Alibrando

"A reverence for Truth is
what makes one a real philosopher..."
Me short-quoting J. Marmysz

"There is a sacred simplicty
in not doing something -
and not doing it well.
All the great religious leaders
have done it.
The Buddha sat under a tree.
Jesus sat still in a garden.
Muhammad sat still in a cave.
And Gandhi and King and thousands of others
brought sitting still to perfection
as a powerful tool of social change.
Passive resistance, meditation, prayer -
one and the same."
R. Fulghum

"Violence doesn't end violence, it extends it."
The Doctor
Doctor Who - A Town Called Mercy

"Instead of talking in my mind,
what if, for a change,
I listen?"
R. Bach

"The line between good and evil,
hope and despair,
does not divide the world
between 'us and them.'
It runs down the middle of every one of us."
R. Fulghum

"Through the failure of philosophy
we come face to face with ourselves
as the sorts of beings
who must endlessly struggle
and fall short of our highest goals.
To do less than this is to be less than human.
To do more is to be a God."
J. Marmysz

"To eat of it -
the Tree of Knowledge -
is always trouble:
not to eat of it is not to be fully human."
Me misquoting R. Fulghum

"...What is it that is ultimately real?"
Me short-quoting J. Marmysm

"Overcome fear,
behold wonder."
R. Bach

"...everything changes.
It's beautiful."
Me short-quoting R. Bach

"Nothing has meaning until it changes
what we think and who we are?"
R. Bach

"Be silent. Be still.
The answers will come."
M. Alibrando

"...Through inner reflection
we might come to understand
the governing principle
of the entire universe."
Me short-quoting J. Marmysz

"Could we have more in common than the past,
could we share some core values yet unfound?"
R. Bach

"Drink in the delight of every moment."
M. Alibrando

"We can never know everything,
yet we should never give up on the
pursuit of the Absolute."
J. Marmysz

"First you have to live through it.
Wisdom comes later."
R. Fulghum

"For it is in giving that we receive."
Francis of Assisi

""Choose having time over having money."
R. Fulghum

"...open your eyes."
Me short-quoting R. Bach

"Remember your way around problems
when you can't run away from them."
R. Bach

"We are finite creatures
with a finite amount of time to
explore ourselves and the world."
J. Marmysz

"So often doing good involves a kind of grimness.
To assault evil, even a small evil,
with mischief, cleverness, merriment and laughter -
that takes genius few of us have but which,
when found, graces the human scene and
makes progress both possible and palatable."
R. Funghum

"...To be a philosopher is to
be curious..."
Me short-quoting J. Marmysz

"What are the questions you HATE not knowing the answers to?"
Unknown

"The art of writing is
the art of discovering
what you believe."
G. Flaubert

"Learn as much as you can
along the way,
but hunch in, hold your breath
coast down that long powerless
hill of dependence till you're
rolling fast enough to
pop the clutch and
start your engine
on your own."
R. Bach

"Only you know -
only you can speak
the magical words
that can magically
untie the knots of
the world - the universe
which you have
created for yourself."

"Speak the magical words
that will set you free."
M. Alibrando

"Mind surrounds and encapsulates the particle of the world,
the way that the water in a stream surrounds the gravel in it's bed,
putting things in motion and giving them order and structure."
J. Marmysz

"Lean into you fears...
... dare them to do their worst
and cut them down when they try."
R. Bach

"Truth is being disclosed..."
Me short-quoting J. Marmysz