Aiden

“Quis hic locus, quae regio, quae mundi plaga? ubi sum? sub ortu solis, an sub cardine glacialis ursae?"

"What place is this, what region, what quarter of the world? Where am I? Under the rising of the sun or beneath the wheeling course of the frozen bear?”

Hercules Furens (The Mad Hercules), Act 5, line 1138”
― Seneca

“Reversibility: seeing through opaqueness, not-seeing through transparency. The wooden door and the glass door: two opposite facets of the same idea. This opposition is resolved in an identity: in both cases we look at ourselves looking. Hinge procedure. The question “What do we see?” confronts us with ourselves.”
― Octavio Paz, Marcel Duchamp: Appearance Stripped Bare

“This is the nonduality principle of Buddhism: there is nothing to throw away. If a person has never suffered, he or she will never be able to know happiness. If a person does not know what hunger is, he or she will never know the joy of eating every day. Thus pain and suffering are a necessary condition of our understanding, of our happiness.”
― Thích Nhất Hạnh, True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart

“Great minds talk about ideas; small minds talk about people”
― Eleanor Roosevelt