Ben

“But you will cease to feel isolated when you recognize, for example, that you do not have a sensation of the sky: you are that sensation. For all purposes of feeling, your sensation of the sky is the sky, and there is no “you” apart from what you sense, feel, and know. This is why the mystics and many of the poets give frequent utterance to the feeling that they are “one with the All,” or “united with God,” or, as Sir Edwin Arnold expressed it— Foregoing self, the universe grows I.”
― Alan W. Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity

“the fundamental paradox of the tour of duty: acknowledging that the employee might leave is actually the best way to build trust, and thus develop the kind of relationship that convinces great people to stay.”
― Reid Hoffman, The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age

“So they made us smarter. The anxiety and depression were side effects.”
― Martha Wells, Artificial Condition

“A man will suffer misery to get to the bottom of truth, but he will not suffer boredom.”
― Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf