Yuri Dratxenko

“Listen! Here’s all you need to know to become enlightened: Sit down, shut up, and ask yourself what’s true until you know. That’s it. That’s the whole deal; a complete teaching of enlightenment, a complete practice. If you ever have any questions or problems—no matter what the question or problem is—the answer is always exactly the same: Sit down, shut up, and ask yourself what’s true until you know. In other words, go jump off a cliff. Don’t go near the cliff and contemplate jumping off. Don’t read a book about jumping off. Don’t study the art and science of jumping off. Don’t join a support group for jumping off. Don’t write poems about jumping off. Don’t kiss the ass of someone else who jumped off. Just jump.”
― Jed McKenna, Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing

“To quote the poets... we're fucked.”
― Marjorie M. Liu, Monstress, Volume 1: Awakening

“What other people think of me has nothing to do with me. It has to do with their reality.”
― Mimi Ikonn

“It may seem difficult at first, but all things are difficult at first.”
― Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings