Ignorance has prevailed so long only because people do not want to find out the truth. ‘Don’t tell me, you’ll spoil my dinner’ is the usual reply to any attempt to tell someone just how that dinner was produced. But it is not the inability to find out what is going on as much as a desire not to know about facts that may lie heavy on one’s conscience that is responsible for this lack of awareness." — from Earthlings
One who seeks the secrets of nature canot find them by avoiding the realities of death, rot, slime, mud, blood and excrement.
"Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth." — Walt Whitman
We don’t have to go anywhere to obtain the truth. We only need to be still and things will reveal themselves in the still water of our heart." — Thich Nhat Hanh
"The fear is simply because you are not living with life, you are living in your mind." — Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
...However paradoxical this may seem to those who refuse to penetrate to the heart of the matter but prefer its superficialities.
You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics. -Bukowski
