“Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“By this the Earth it self, which lyes so neer us, under our feet, shews quite a new thing to us, and in every little particle of its matter; we now behold almost as great a variety of Creatures, as we were able before to reckon up in the whole Universe it self.”— Robert Hooke, amazon.com
“The primeval, the sublime, are much better words here — for they indicate realms remote from the moral or the human, realms which force us to gaze into immense vistas of space and time, where the beginnings and originations of all things lie hidden.”— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com
“But gardens, Eden or Kew, are not the right metaphors here, for the primeval has nothing to do with the human, but has to do with the ancient, the aboriginal, the beginning of all things.”— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com
“Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge — and has to content oneself with dreaming.”— Paul Gaugin, amazon.com
“You wonder about me. I wonder about you. Who are you? And what are you doing?”— Ruth Ozeki, amazon.com
“The old adage that the life of men is like a being at the point where two roads meet refers not only to the general course of life but to individual action. For no sooner do we undertake the least thing than we are pulled hither and yon, and we mix together opposing counsels as though tossed by a st…”— John Calvin, amazon.com
“The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings. And the sea is precisely their best vehicle, the only medium through which these giants (against which terrestrial animals, such as elephants or rhinoceroses, are as nothing) can be produced or developed”— Jules Verne, amazon.com
“Life and the world, or whatever we call that which we are and feel, is an astonishing thing. The mist of familiarity obscures from us the wonder of our being. We are struck with admiration at some of its transient modifications, but it is itself the great miracle.”— Percy Bysshe Shelley, amazon.com
“Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.”— Samuel Beckett, amazon.com
“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”— Robert Louis Stevenson, amazon.com
“Wisdom can’t be taught and by the same token can’t be learned. Instead, it’s the kind of knowledge you become.”— Deepak Chopra, huffingtonpost.com
“Practicing silence means making a commitment to take a certain amount of time to simply Be.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions and him entirely and all together.”— Emily Brontë, amazon.com
“Have you ever lost yourself in a kiss? I mean pure psychedelic inebriation. Not just lustful petting but transcendental metamorphosis when you became aware that the greatness of this being was breathing into you. Licking the sides and corners of your mouth, like sealing a thousand fleshy envelopes f…”— Saul Williams, amazon.com
“Life itself is not disappointing; it is a series of moments to practice being with life as it is.”— Phillip Moffitt, twitter.com