"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."

(Kahlil Gibran)

"Isn't this enough? Just this world Just THIS?"

(Tim Minchin)

In practicing the Dhamma, there have to be causes. If there are no causes, there are no results. If the causes are good, the results will be good. If the causes are bad, the results will be bad.
(Ajahn Khamdee)

“Suffering is something to be comprehended. When you comprehend it, you let it go. Why would you want to wear it?”
(Ajahn Dune)

“A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.”
(Hunter S Thompson)

"There was an awful suspicion in my mind that I'd finally gone over the hump, and the worst thing about it was that I didn't feel tragic at all, but only weary, and sort of comfortably detached."
(Hunter S. Thompson)

"Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening."
(Allen Ginsberg)

Now, as formerly, I just point out dukkha and its cessation.
(Majjhima Nikaya 1, 251)

"Pain, pleasure and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence."
(Frida Kahlo)

Somewhere between the lies and truths, borderlines get shady.
Somewhere between the yeses and nos you can find a maybe.
Somewhere between the highs and lows you can spot the middle.
Somewhere between the questions and clues you can solve the riddle.
Somewhere along the road you might need a place to stay.
Somewhere along the line you're gonna have to pass away.
And somewhere in space you still remind me of a reason.
And summertime you still smell like my favorite season.
(Everlast)

"Only the dead cannot practice meditation."
(Ajahn Maha Boowa)

"Nature endlessly in every direction, inward to your body and outward into space."
(Jack Kerouac)

"When the mob governs, man is ruled by ignorance; when the church governs, he is ruled by superstition; and when the state governs, he is ruled by fear. Before men can live together in harmony and understanding, ignorance must be transmuted into wisdom, superstition into an illuminated faith, and fear into love."
(Manly P. Hall)

"If a warrior is to succeed in anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession."
(Carlos Casteneda)

The world says, "Don't worry about whether you're good or bad, as long as you have money." This is just the opposite of the Dhamma, which says, "Don't worry about whether you're rich or poor, as long as you're a good person."
(Ajahn Lee)

"That looks like a tree, let's call it a tree,' said Coyote to Earthmaker at the beginning, and they walked around the rootdrinker patting their bellies."
(Jack Kerouac)

"Love is higher than opinion. If people love one another the most varied opinions can be reconciled - thus one of the most important tasks for humankind today and in the future is that we should learn to live together and understand one another. If this human fellowship is not achieved, all talk of development is empty."
(Rudolf Steiner)

"The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are."

(Joseph Campbell)

"So many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible."
(Lewis Carroll)

"The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream."
(Jack Kerouac)

"The major lesson Tiggers need to learn is that if they don't control their impulses, their impulses will control them. No matter how much they do, Tiggers are never satisfied because they don't know the feeling of accomplishment that eventually comes when one persistently applies one's will to the attaining of non-immediately-reachable goals."

(Benjamin Hoff, 'The Te of Piglet')

Thousands of years ago, man lived

in harmony with the rest of the natural world. Through what we would today call Telepathy, he communicated with animals, plants, and other forms of life-none of which he considered "beneath" himself, only different, with different jobs to perform. 
(Benjamin Hoff, 'The Te of Piglet')

"While Eeyore frets ...
... and Piglet hesitates
... and Rabbit calculates
... and Owl pontificates
...Pooh just is."
('The Tao of Pooh', Benjamin Hoff)

"There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death."
(Charles Bukowski)

"The Edge... There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."
(Hunter S. Thompson)

An intelligent person knows how to use both good and evil without causing harm. Arahants even know how to use their defilements so as to be of benefit. When sages use common language, it can serve a good purpose. But when fools use fine language, it can be bad. If they use bad language; it's even worse.
(Ajahn Lee)

"The tranquility of the moments set apart will also affect everyday existence. In his whole being he will grow calmer; he will attain firm assurance in all his actions, and cease to be put out of countenance by all manner of incidents. By thus advancing he will gradually become more and more his own guide, and allow himself less and less to be led by circumstances and external influences. He will soon discover how great a source of strength is available to him in these moments thus set apart. He will begin no longer to get angry at things which formerly annoyed him; countless things he formerly feared cease to alarm him. He acquires a new outlook on life."
(Rudolph Steiner)

"If one reaches the point where understanding fails, this is not a tragedy: it is simply a reminder to stop thinking and start looking.  Perhaps there is nothing to figure out after all: perhaps we only need to wake up."
(Thomas Merton)

"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)