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“caitiff,”
― Ronald McNair Scott, Robert the Bruce, King of Scots

“To “purify” the senses is to release them, so far as human beings may, from the tyranny of egocentric judgments; to make of them the organs of direct perception. This means that we must crush our deep-seated passion for classification and correspondences; ignore the instinctive, selfish question, “What does it mean to me?” learn to dip ourselves in the universe at our gates, and know it, not from without by comprehension, but from within by self-mergence.”
― Evelyn Underhill, Practical Mysticism

“Knowing the poison is never the same as knowing the killer.”
― Deborah Blum, The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York

“suggestion of some cognitive scientists that there is no unified self at the core of each individual; the self is just a byproduct of the interaction of a host of cognitive functions.”
― John Horgan, Rational Mysticism: Spirituality Meets Science in the Search for Enlightenment