"It is very unhappy, but too late..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The household is a school of power. There, within the door, learn the tragi-comedy of human life.”

“But a compassion for that which is not and cannot be useful and lovely, is degrading and futile.”

“The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible.”

“When you feel pain, you know that you are still alive.”

“If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of existence, or at any rate not take it upon himself to impose that burden upon it in cold blood?”

“This dance is the joy of existence.”

“When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.”

“When you recognize that there is a voice in your head that pretends to be you and never stops speaking, you are awakening out of your unconscious identification with the stream of thinking. When you notice that voice, you realize that who you are is not the voice - the thinker - but the one who is aware of it.”

“There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of knowledge, of feeling, of desire, of deliberation, etc., that constantly pass and repass, and that constitute our inner life.”