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“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”
― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

“We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.”
― Brian Cox

“The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.”
― Baruch Spinoza

“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.”
― Seneca

“The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.”
― William H. Gass, A Temple of Texts

“The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.”
― Plato, The Republic

“If you get the message, hang up the phone. For psychedelic drugs are simply instruments, like microscopes, telescopes, and telephones. The biologist does not sit with eye permanently glued to the microscope, he goes away and works on what he has seen.”
― Alan Watts

“The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world”
― Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy

“As above, so below, as within, so without, as the universe, so the soul…”
― Hermes Trismegistus

“Be — don't try to become”
― Osho

“The excellence of the soul is understanding; for the man who understands is conscious, devoted, and already godlike.”
― Hermes Trismegistus