Bipasana

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“That morning I had chosen death but nonetheless continued to live, with the fragment of oar in my hand, ready to fight for life- to go on fighting for the only thing that didn't matter at all to me now.”
― Garcia Marquez Gabriel

“Alas! Why does man boast of sensibilities superior to those apparent in the brute; it only renders them more necessary beings. If our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might be nearly free; but now we are moved by every wind that blows and a chance word or scene that that word may convey to us.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein