Andrew Cvercko

“The original reality of Amitabha is our own Dharma body, It shines out brightly everywhere, in the South, North, East, and West, It is like the autumn moon that lies in the high, vast sky, In the silence of the night its brilliance shines far over the ocean.”
― Thích Nhất Hạnh, Finding Our True Home: Living in the Pure Land Here and Now

“There is no door to God through dope; that is a lie peddled by the unscrupulous.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Valis Trilogy: The Complete Collection of Philip K. Dick's Award-Winning VALIS Series

“Each day forty thousand children die of hunger. The superpowers now have more than fifty thousand nuclear warheads, enough to destroy our planet many times. Yet the sunrise is beautiful, and the rose that bloomed this morning along the wall is a miracle. Life is both dreadful and wonderful. To practice meditation is to be in touch with both aspects.”
― Thích Nhất Hạnh, Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings

“There was the hills, an' there was me, an' we wasn't separate no more. We was one thing. An' that one thing was holy.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath