Cristobal

“The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.”
― Northrop Frye

“Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.”
― Josh Billings

“Eternal Rest. If I have the temerity to prefer my own definition of the spirit of Buḍḍha's doctrine, it is because I think that all the misconceptions of it have arisen from a failure to understand his idea of what is real and what is unreal, what worth longing and striving for and what not. From this misconception have come all the unfounded charges that Buḍḍhism is an "atheistical," that is to say, a grossly materialistic, a nihilistic, a negative, a vice-breeding religion. Buḍḍhism denies the existence of a personal God—true: therefore—well, therefore, and notwithstanding all this, its teaching is neither what may be called properly atheistical, nihilistic, negative, nor provocative of vice. I will try to make my meaning clear, and the advancement of modern scientific research helps in this direction. Science divides the universe for us into two elements—matter and force;”
― Henry Steel Olcott, The Life of Buddha and Its Lessons

“If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.”
― Terence McKenna