We can only escape the bloody and ignorant nightmare of history by exploring alternatives which today look frighteningly weird.

As a great master once observed: "There are two methods of becoming god, the upright or the averse." Let the mind become as a flame or a pool of still water.

The only clear view is from atop the mountain of your dead selves.

We doubt that any facts actually exist. We only have observations and interpretations. Most of the interpretations remain questionable.

Only through absolute loyalty to each other can the few control the many.

Some have sought to avoid suffering by avoiding desire. Thus they have only small desires and small sufferings, poor fools.

Indeed, linear extrapolations make no large-scale sense in a universe that has spatial and temporal curvature.