Swensen

“I hadn't planned on climbing mountains.
But now that you're in the mountains, be ready to suffer.”
― Gao Xingjian, Soul Mountain

“Modern man does not understand how much his “rationalism” (which has destroyed his capacity to respond to numinous symbols and ideas) has put him at the mercy of the psychic “underworld.” He has freed himself from “superstition” (or so he believes), but in the process he has lost his spiritual values to a positively dangerous degree. His moral and spiritual tradition has disintegrated, and he is now paying the price for this break-up in worldwide disorientation and dissociation. Anthropologists”
― C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols

“I read in a book that a man called Christ went about doing good. It distresses me that I am so easily satisfied with just going about.”
― Toyohiko Kagawa

“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.”
― Marcus Aurelius