Faith is primarily a process of identification; the process by which the individual ceases to be himself and becomes part of something eternal.
Eric HofferTo grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.
Eric HofferWe have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.
Eric Hoffer