Pathos activates the eyes and ears to see and hear. At times of pathos, illness opens doors to a reality which is closed to a healthy point of view.

Over-intellectualizing can justify practically anything. Reason has reasons that can create holocausts. In the 20th century, we have certainly seen how much killing and disaster has been championed with superb intellectual reasons.

Engaging it produces an intense force, which in turn produces a mutation in consciousness. You become who you really are.

If you keep telling the same sad small story. You will keep living the same sad small life.

I don't think that any great issue ever gets resolved. I think we outgrow them.

In a world such as ours, where we have to cross the great divide of otherness or we will not survive, love is perhaps the most critical aspect that is there in our humanity, to both activate and to practice.

Try to spend a few moments each day holding a picture of your body and your mind in a state of splendid health.