Alec Rowell

“With all its many risks, this life endures
No more than windblown bubbles in a stream.
How marvelous to breathe in and out again,
To fall asleep and then awake refreshed.”
― Nāgārjuna, Nagarjuna's Letter To A Friend: With Commentary By Kangyur Rinpoche

“Most importantly we have learned that from here on it is success for all or none, for it is experimentally proven by physics that "unity is plural and at minimum two" - the complementary but not mirror-imaged proton and neutron. You and I are inherently different and complimentary. Together we average as zero - that is, as eternity.”
― Richard Buckminster Fuller, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth

“I almost think that hope is for the soul what breathing is for the living organism. Where hope is lacking the soul dries up and withers...”
― Gabriel Marcel, Homo Viator: Introduction to the Metaphysic of Hope

“Integrity is the essence of everything successful.”
― Richard Buckminster Fuller