Meditation... dissolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass.

There's birth, there's death, and in between there's maintenance.

Virtually every advancement made by our species since civilization first peeked out of its nest of stone has been initiated by lone individuals, mavericks who more often than not were ignored, mocked, or viciously persecuted by society and its institutions.

Our world isn't made of earth, air and water or even molecules and atoms; our world is made of language.

Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.

Sharks are the criminals of the sea. Dolphins are the outlaws.

The fact is, what I hated in the Church was what I hated in society. Namely, authoritarians. Power freaks. Rigid dogmatists. Those greedy, underloved, undersexed twits who want to run everything. While the rest of us are busy living - busy tasting and testing and hugging and kissing and goofing and growing - they are busy taking over.