"Sometimes the best results come when you are thrown in the deep end."

“Nature is our greatest teacher.”

“A person who is able to be a living centre of peace in today's world and who is able to radiate that peace powerfully, ceaselessly, will be in a position to give needy mankind the benefit it lacks most and is in greatest need of.”

“When you live completely in each moment, without expecting anything, you have no idea of time.”

“To build community requires vigilant awareness of the work we must continually do to undermine all the socialization that leads us to behave in ways that perpetuate domination.”

“The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.”

Source : Giambattista Vico (2015). “The New Science of Giambattista Vico”, p.153, Cornell University Press

“The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly”

“The fears and anxieties and obsessions wrapped up in being a parent.”

Source : "Q&A: Bates Motel's Vera Farmiga on the Terrors of Parenthood". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. February 1, 2014.

“The clerical system of church management is exceedingly popular, but the whole thought is foreign to Scripture. In a church all the members are active. He [God] appointed some to take oversight of the work so that it might be carried on efficiently. It was never His thought that the majority of the believers should devote themselves exclusively to secular affairs and leave church matters to a group of spiritual specialists.”