Whatever it is, make your practice something that can bear some revision. Revise it, and revise it again, until it becomes something that truly sustains you.

— Christina Rosalie (A Field Guide to Now: Notes on Mindfulness and Life in the Present Tense)

Materialism is a set of descriptive propositions referring to a univers in which there are no descriptive propositions. Its vocabolury and syntax, its epistemology, is suitable only for the description of such a universe. We cannot even use its language to describe our activity in description.

— Gregory Bateson (Angels Fear)

The hole in the bagel defines the torus. When the bagel is eaten, the hole does not remain to be reincarnated in a doughnut.

— Grageory Bateson (Angels Fear)

Survival and thriving are the poles between which the moments of life are strung. The balance is tenuous, and the outcome for each of us is different.

— Christina Rosalie (A Field Guide to Now: Notes on Mindfulness and Life in the Present Tense)

Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.

— Ernest Hemingway