The experience of light in a very pure form always creates happiness. The experience of desire and aversion tends to create unhappiness.

While I am here I would like to experience as many of the beauties of the world as possible and help others to do the same.

Wisdom is something that seeks itself. The wiser you become the more you'd like to know.

We interact with others and we decide who we are. Are we reclusive? Are we outgoing? Are we successful? Are we going to be a failure? We cast a role for ourselves and we step into it.

In one particular chapter in Ulysses, James Joyce imitates every major writing style that's been used by English and American writers over the last 700 years - starting with Beowulf and Chaucer and working his way up through the Renaissance, the Victorian era and on into the 20th century.

The body comes and goes. This life, my friend, will come and go. It is a fleeting moment, an impulse in an eternal reality.

The perceiver of the dream, the one whom the dream is unfolding before, is what we call the Self.