"We learn in the past, but we are not the result of that. We suffered in the past, loved in the past, cried and laughed in the past, but that’s of no use to the present. The present has its challenges, its good and bad side. We can neither blame nor be grateful to the past for what is happening now. Each new experience of love has nothing whatsoever to do with past experiences. It’s always new."

"People aren’t used to that way of thinking. They want everything to stay the same — and the consequence of that is pain."
(Paulo Coelho)

“The mind sent outside
is the origination of suffering.

The result of the mind sent outside is suffering.

The mind seeing the mind is the path.

The result of the mind seeing the mind is the cessation of suffering.”
(Ajahn Dune)

"I am not a foreigner, because I haven’t been praying to return safely home. I haven’t wasted my time imagining my house, my desk, my side of the bed. I am not a foreigner, because we are all traveling, we are all full of the same questions, the same tiredness, the same fears, the same selfishness, and the same generosity. I am not a foreigner, because, when I asked, I received."
(Paulo Coelho)

"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."
(Edward Abbey)

“In the area of the world, you have things that you have. In the area of the Dhamma, you have something you don’t have.”
(Ajahn Dune)

"Two things must be completely avoided during training. We should never harm anyone through deeds, thoughts or words intentionally or not. Secondly, the feeling of hate must disappear in us, otherwise it reappears as a feeling of fear; for fear is suppressed hate. We must transform the hate into a feeling of love, the love of wisdom."
(Rudolph Steiner)

"Virtue and wisdom are sublime things, but if they create pride and a consciousness of separateness from the rest of humanity, they are only the snakes of self reappearing in a finer form."
(Helena Petrovna Blavatsky)

"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!"
(Hunter S. Thompson)

'Detached and at ease, I will dart past the Eagle to be free.'
(Carlos Casteneda)

"Then I added "Blah," with a little grin, because I knew that shack and that mountain would understand what that meant, and turned and went on down the trail back to this world."
(Jack Kerouac)

At the top of the mountain
we are all
snow leopards.
(Hunter S. Thompson)

“Those who have awakened don’t talk of what they’ve awakened to, because it lies above and beyond all words.”
(Ajahn Dune)

"We are nothing.
- Tomorrow we may be die.
We are nothing.
- You and me."
(Jack Kerouac)

Our fellow men are black magicians. And whoever is with them is a black magician on the spot. Think for a moment, can you deviate from the path that your fellow men have lined up for you? And if you remain with them, your thoughts and your actions are fixed forever in their terms. That is slavery. The warrior, on the other hand, is free from all that. Freedom is expensive, but the price is not impossible to pay. So, fear your captors, your masters. Don't waste your time and your power fearing freedom.
(Carlos Casteneda)

"I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street."
(Virginia Woolf)

The flaw with words is that they always make us feel enlightened, but when we turn around to face the world they always fail us and we end up facing the world as we always have, without enlightenment. For this reason, a warrior seeks to act rather than to talk, and to this effect, he gets a new description of the world — a new description where talking is not that important, and where new acts have new reflections.
(Carlos Casteneda)

"Let the dead bury their dead. If you want to live at every moment as it presents itself, you've got to die to every other moment."
(Aldous Huxley)

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
(Friedrich Nietzsche)

"Facts are ventriloquists' dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism."
(Aldous Huxley)

"Each one of us has it in themselves to be a free spirit, just as every rose bud has in it a rose."
(Rudolf Steiner)

You and I
will be lost and found
a thousand times
along this cobbled road
of us.
(Atticus)

"It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids."
(Hunter S. Thompson)