Tom Stroh

“lives were spent in pursuit of shadowy ends that remained ever just round the corner.”
― Olaf Stapledon, Star Maker

“When there is a crack in the Cosmic Egg, Buddha is about to be born.”
― Alan W. Watts, Cloud-hidden, Whereabouts Unknown

“In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as is known, if it is to be fertile. Dissention, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed. Fascism does not want them, forbids them…it wants everyone to be the same, and you’re not. —Primo Levi, The Periodic Table”
― Oliver Benjamin, The Tao of the Dude: Awesome Insights of Deep Dudes from Lao Tzu to Lebowski

“To abandon the idea of separation from and submission to God has always been feared as a threat to morals, but there is absolutely no evidence to show that monotheists have behaved more lovingly to one another than pantheists. If anything, the evidence goes the other way, for all peoples who have a cosmology that corresponds to a military chain of command are obnoxious fighters and imperialists. They are forever punishing and disciplining other people for their own good, and milking them to the limit at the same time.”
― Alan W. Watts, Cloud-hidden, Whereabouts Unknown