Carl

“We’re like the comic strip character Hagar the Horrible who, when asked which he’d choose, power, gold, or true happiness, chose power: “With power, I could get the gold, and then I’d be happy.” We find Hagar’s idea humorous because we know better. Yet most of the time we ignore this very knowledge, and act (or at least think) much like Hagar.”
― Steve Hagen, Buddhism Plain and Simple

“Shifting baseline syndrome is the way change happens so slowly that we don’t recognise our perception of ‘normal’ changing. I think I look the same in the mirror each morning until one day I can’t button up my jeans. We don’t realise a landscape is deteriorating until it’s too late. It is one of the most important concepts I learnt all year.”
― Alastair Humphreys, Local: A Search for Nearby Nature and Wildness

“you’d better be prepared for the jump into hyperspace. It’s unpleasantly like being drunk.’ ‘What’s so unpleasant about being drunk?’ ‘You ask a glass of water.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Those who are aware,” he said, “do not die. Those who are ignorant are as if dead already.”
― Steve Hagen, Buddhism Plain and Simple