Oskari’s Reviews > New Self, New World: Recovering Our Senses in the Twenty-First Century > Status Update

‘The idea that we somehow have an obligation to be happy, should expect happiness, or even have a right to be happy creates an invidious phantasm that people chase numbly through all their years, feeling cheated in the end not to have found it. The soul neither wants nor asks for you to be happy: the soul wants you to live - fully, bodily, open to passion and heartbreak and love and awakened...’

‘Our lives are affected by the gravitational pull of a single electron at the remotes fringe of the remotest galaxy’

‘The more authority we give to an idea, the greater its power of endarkenment, and the deeper the compliance that binds us.’

‘Your work is to discover your work and then, with all your heart, to give yourself to it’

‘Be still, and know that life is subtle’

‘It is not half so important to know as to feel...”