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

“The great ideal of Mahayana Buddhism is to remain in this world, so tempting and full of snares, but at the same time attain this awareness of the Absolute which underlies it, thus remaining free while helping others to free themselves. Nagarjuna captures the essence of this state when he proclaims, There is no difference at all between samsara and nirvana;”
― Anonymous, The Dhammapada

“Dare to be naïve.”
― Richard Buckminster Fuller

“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