"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed." -Albert Einstein

"Everyone sees how you appear,
few touch what you are." -Machiavelli

"A victor only breeds hatred, while a defeated man lives in misery, but a man at peace within lives happily, abandoning up ideas of victory and defeat. " -Dhammapadda

It's over. It's time for loss to build
its tower in the yard where you
are merely a spectator now.

Admit you'd like to find something
discarded or damaged, even gone,
and lift it back into the world.

Stephen Dunn "Dismantling the House"

"Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is a spiritual war. Our depression is our lives." -Tyler Durden

"Are you not ashamed that you give your attention to acquiring as much money as possible, and similarly with reputation and honour, and give no attention or thought to truth and understanding, and the perfection of your soul." -Socrates

Only when the doors of perception are cleansed will man see things as the really are - infinite.

-William Blake