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“In fact, pain was really not a vital sign, after all, for unlike the four real vital signs it cannot be measured objectively and with exactitude.”
― Sam Quinones, Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic

“Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, a meditation teacher in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, has said, “Ultimately, happiness comes down to choosing between the discomfort of becoming aware of your mental afflictions and the discomfort of being ruled by them.”
― Robert Wright, Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment

“being in closer-than-usual contact with the actual workings of your mind can lead you to confront issues with a new and perhaps unsettling honesty.”
― Robert Wright, Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment

“What good would it have done me in the last hour of my life to know that though our great nation and the United States were in complete ruins, the national honor of the Soviet Union was intact?”
― Daniel Ellsberg, The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner