“These people don t think there s anything wrong with me - they don t even notice me. They assume I am one of them, which feels like the very summit of my high school career. Here I am, standing on an over-twenty-one night at the best bar in America second city, getting ready to be among a couple hundred people who see the reunion show of the greatest no-name band of the last decade.”
“All persons act from beliefs they are conditioned not to question, from a set of deeply seated prejudices. Therefore, whoever presumes to judge must be asked: How are you affronted? And this judge must begin there to question inwardly as well as outwardly. — The Question from Ritual of the Courtarena Guide to Servants of the Box”
“No lecture and no moral. Just blood calling to blood. The stupid urges of wakeful people. And you ve made it to a time of life when you re completely awake. It s hard for you. I know that. It s hard for everyone, but most teenagers don t have your abilities. Your weapons.”
“Even though I must approve my identification as a scientist and philosopher for the convenience of the people, in reality, I am nameless, formless and timeless.”
“There are days when the world won t comprehend your silence, it doesn t know of many quiet pioneers. This alone, will trigger many. Let it humble your heart, teaching you to become softer and more soulful, not a mirror to this cold hearted place.”
“You are the world s leading authority on your own destiny.”
“Shine, Shine.”
“Harmony and disharmony start and end with the mind - peace and conflict start and end with the mind - acceptance and discrimination start and end with the mind.”
“Nature has placed in your heart such strength to which there is no match.”
“If you are human, your mind turns into a breeding ground of holiness, even if you haven’t studied a single letter of the holy books. It s not the book that makes you holy, it s your behavior.”
“Life is so short and I am so convinced of what I want in life, that I first change the entire World before changing my mind!”
“I am convinced that a better future will come for our planet in general, when the chemistry behind our emotions is thoroughly taught at school .”
“I am not going to be everyone s cup of tea... but I really don t want to be everyone s cup of tea! Who wants to be a cheap ass cup of tea that literally everyone can get? I m the handmade macha tea that you can only find in that 3,000- year-old tea shop at the top of the enchanted 3-tiered waterfall on that sacred hill in Kyoto. You need to understand culture to find that. You need to appreciate value to have that. You need to be on the path of magic to even know that this tea shop is there! I m your once-in-a-lifetime cup of tea. I m surely not everybody s cup of tea but that s the last thing on Earth I d ever want to be.”
“We think that we are afraid of the things we might fail at. But that s not true. Look at the heart of your fears: you re afraid of your brilliant Light. You re afraid of the possibility of never falling. What if you outshine the Sun? What if you stand atop these mountains? We are afraid of the heights that our spirits know, belong to us. You re afraid of being more, of being much. That is what you are really afraid of.”
“If your ego is winning, your spirit and soul are losing.”
“Those can t understand themselves, can never understand others.”
“Love is simultaneously the message, medium, method, meaning, and messenger—it is both the origin and destination.”