"As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step."

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Source : Alison Hawthorne Deming (1994). “Temporary Homelands”

Alison Hawthorne Deming

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“The drug ketamine, used as a 'dissociative' anesthetic, can produce subjective reports of conscious awareness outside the body, as can various other psychoactive drugs.”

Source : "Can Science Explain the Soul?" by Stuart Hameroff, Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 9, 2010.
“Our ambitions are bold and so must be our desire to change and evolve our culture.”

Source : "Microsoft's CEO Sent Out A Giant Manifesto To Employees About The Future Of The Company" by Jay Yarow, www.businessinsider.com. July 10, 2014.
“Philosophy is an amazing tissue of really fine thinking and incredible, puerile mistakes. It's like one of those rubber 'bones' they give dogs to chew, damned good for the mind's teeth, but as food - no bloody good at all.”

Source : Olaf Stapledon (2013). “Odd John and Sirius”, p.28, Courier Corporation
“I write about what I know; and I write about things that are new to me, and that I didn't know before.”

Source : "Colum McCann Links Communities With Storytelling". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. June 26, 2012.
“Art is eternal, but life is short.”
“All gods are one God, and all goddesses are one Goddess, and there is one Initiator.”
“I don't think people were put here to be happy. I think if you decide to be an artist or a writer, you automatically accept the responsibility of being alone. However, after your 50 or 60 years are up you'll be able to look back and see this output that you've done that will endure long after you're gone, and will continue to fill the minds of millions of people.”
“Although religion might be useful in developing a solid moral framework - and enforcing it - we can quite easily develop moral intuitions without relying on religion.”

Source : "The Story of God". Book by Robert Winston, www.theguardian.com. 2005.

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