Tristan Reynolds

“We do not "come into" this world, we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean "waves", as the universe "peoples". Every individual is an expression of the realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe. This fact is rarely, if ever, experienced by most individuals. Even those who know it to be true in theory do not sense or feel it, but continue to be aware of themselves as isolated "egos" inside bags of skin.”
― Alan Watts

“There is no way of cutting ourselves free of our conceptual inheritance: all we are required to do is use our experience critically and discriminatingly, refining and improving our inherited ideas, and determining more exactly the limits to their scope.”
― Stephen Toulmin, Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity

“To sin is a human business, but to justify sins is a devilish business.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“Then the doctor, a young man, not quite a Nihilist perhaps, but you know, eats with his knife...but a very good doctor.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina