"We're all equals as men, except I'm slightly more equal because I'm still alive and you're dead."

“Nothing has changed the nature of man so much as the loss of silence,”

Source : Max Picard (1952). “The World of Silence”

“We meditate alone but live our lives with other people; a gap is inevitable. If our path is to lead to less suffering, nd much of our suffering is with other people, then perhaps we need to reexamine our sole commitment to these individual practices... As our individual pracitce deepens, it may yiled true ease. But whether we practice meditation in seclusion or independently alongside other meditators at a meditation group or retreat, individual meditation approaches the confusion and pain of our relational lives only indirectly.”

“The debate analysis in the media is rampant with contest analogies of war, baseball, boxing, football; you name it. Any testosterone contest imaginable is fair game.”

Source : "McCain Acts Like A Tough-Guy; We Need A Gentleman" by Jon Raymond, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 28, 2008.

“A broken clock is right two times a day.”

“Earth has one angel less and heaven one more, since yesterday.”

“But I know what darkness is, it accumulates, thickens, then suddenly bursts and drowns everything.”

“I work because I have issues and questions and feelings and thoughts that I want to have a look at. I'm not in need of, or wanting, particularly, to know what other folk are up to.”

“The truest success is but the development of self.”