Chamnongsri Hanchanlash

“persistent practice and rare insights help shrink the once almighty I, the vulnerable Me, and the intrusive Mine. Not gone entirely. Just reduced to manageable proportions. Just i-me-mine. Something more considerate of the you, the we, the ours, and the rest of the biosphere. Being diminutive, this new i-me-mine carries a very low profile. Smaller and streamlined, it no longer sticks up high to trip the positive functions of the mature ego. Neither is it windblown by every shifting, hot or cold breeze from the old instinctual self. Nor will it be overloaded by distortions imposed by others’ guilt-ridden consciences.”
― James H. Austin, Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness

“Freedom from the known is death, and then you are living. … The burden of the past gives rise to its own continuity and the worries of yesterday give new life to the worry of today. How necessary it is to die each day, to die each minute to everything, to the many yesterdays and to the moment that has just gone by. Without death there is no renewing, without death there is no creation.”
― Satish Modi, In Love With Death

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov

“Life, he wrote, “is a dangerous situation.” It is the frailty of life that makes it precious;”
― Sallie Tisdale, Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying