What is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the hour of great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becometh loathsome unto you, and so also your reason and virtue. Friedrich Nietzsche

When you reach the top, keep climbing. Zen proverb

If the only prayer you say in your whole life is Thank You, that will suffice. Meister Eckhart

To surrender is to relinquish the illusion of control, which initiates the death part of the death/rebirth process, which is the transition from the bondage of the womb-like Segregated State to the freedom of the ever-expanding Integrated State. No faith or belief is required to accomplish this act of surrender, only clear-seeing. When one begins t

taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Enlightenment is life-negative. Human Adulthood is the real prize. Spiritual Enlightenment is pointless and meaningless, and should only be sought by those who have absolutely no choice in the matter.

To hold a pen is to be at war. Voltaire

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. Daniel Boorstin

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. Fyodor Dostoevsky