“The reason we feel alienated is because the society is infantile, trivial, and stupid. So the cost of sanity in this society is a certain level of alienation.”
— Terence McKenna
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
“You exist as an idea in your mind.”
— Shunryu Suzuki
“The inner voice that beckons us to change always points the way.”
— Abdi Assadi, Shadows on the Path
“In our lives, the most useless things are hope and fear.”
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
“There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.”
— R.D. Laing
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
— Rumi
“Sit in your feelings. Learn to tolerate being an imperfect human while holding awareness of your innate divine perfection.”
— Abdi Assadi
“This instant and eternity are struggling within us.”
— Arvo Pärt
“Progress comes to those that train and train; reliance on secret techniques will get you nowhere.”
— Morihei Ueshiba
“Our heart knows what our mind has forgotten - it knows the sacred that is within all that exists, and through a depth of feeling we can once again experience this connection, this belonging.”
— Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee 
“An addiction is anything we do to avoid hearing the messages that body and soul are trying to send us.”
— Marion Woodman
“Instead of transcending ourselves, we must move into ourselves.”
— Marion Woodman
“Feeling is the antithesis of pain... the more pain one feels, the less pain one suffers.”
— Arthur Janov
“One is free from depression only when self-esteem is based on the authenticity of one’s own feelings and not on the possession of certain qualities.”
— Alice Miller
“If we are not questioning on a daily level, our spiritual practice is worthless.”
— Abdi Assadi
“Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.”
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
— Leo Tolstoy
“My technique is don’t believe anything. If you believe in something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite.”
— Terence McKenna
“It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
“Some people mistake being loving for being a sap. Quite the contrary, the most loving people are often the most fierce and the most acutely armed for battle… for they care about preserving and protecting poetry, symphonic song, ideas, the elements, creatures, inventions, hopes and dreams, dances and holiness… those godly endeavors that cannot be allowed to perish from this earth, else humanity itself would perish.”
— Clarissa Pinkola Estés
“Only a burning patience will lead to the attainment of a splendid happiness.”
— Pablo Neruda
“The greater the doubt, the greater the awakening; the smaller the doubt, the smaller the awakening. No doubt, no awakening.”
— C.C. Chang
“Leave your front door and your back door open. Let thoughts come and go. Just don’t serve them tea.”
— Shunryu Suzuki
“One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul.”
— Clarissa Pinkola Estés
“It is joy to be hidden but disaster not to be found.”
— D.W. Winnicott
“You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books, you shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, you shall listen to all sides and filter them from your self.”
— Walt Whitman
“Try not to resist the changes which come your way. Instead, let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come?”
— Shams Tabriz
“We try, and we try, and we fail; and then we go deeper.”
— Shunryu Suzuki
“Most times, we ourselves cannot distinguish between the story we tell and the underlying reality.”
— Abdi Assadi
“Trauma in a person, decontextualized over time, looks like personality. Trauma in a family, decontextualized over time, looks like family traits. Trauma in a people, decontextualized over time, looks like culture.”
— Resmaa Menakem
“To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an exuberant curiosity in the face of the unknown.”
— Robert Bly
“When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick: every time a stick is thrown, you run after it. Instead, be like a lion who, rather than chasing after the stick, turns to face the thrower. One only throws a stick at a lion once.”
— Milarepa