Dreaming is not a madness. Awakening is.
Author: Nissa Tolton
The means of success is often the manner in which it ends.
There is a pervasive belief in the West that freedom means having many choices. Yet, there is reason to believe the opposite: that it be a system of control.
We are about to be subsumed by an idiocracy that only the patriarchy could have saved us from
One gets into Heaven by being good at it, and that means practice. How Shaker society was so opposite to ours, and in this most zen way!
Quotes from the book
There is an Emily in each of us. It is incompatible with this world, and thereby reminds us that we are not native to it.
If you are permanently in a dream world, how do you spend your time? After all, nothing matters.
Civilisation requires compromises. In exchange for comfort, we lost our reason for being here.
The greatest mystery of the universe is how our own ignorance shrouds it.