Joe Marcus

“Don’t treat yourself so gingerly; you can let go of stuff. Sometimes it takes three breaths instead of two to do it, but you can do it. Be a little tougher and don’t cling to stuff. People go around carrying everybody’s stuff all of the time. I just pick it up and put it down. Pick it up and put it down. That doesn’t mean I’m not compassionate, it doesn’t mean I don’t love people. But holding onto people’s suffering is not compassionate… for them or for you.”
― Ram Dass

“Turning away from a flight from death, you see a horizon of opportunity that puts you in a state of anticipatory resoluteness with solicitous regard for others that makes your life seem like an adventure perfused with unshakeable joy.”
― Heidegger, Martin

“They tried to get me to hate white people, but someone would always come along & spoil it.”
― Thelonious Monk

“It is better, proverbially, to rule your own spirit than to rule a city.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos