“Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of 'I know.' Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.” PeopleKnowsGivingSufferingHumanitySecurityStrangePrisonCellsCollectivesDogmaStrange ThingsPrison Cells Book:Stillness Speaks Source: Stillness Speaks
“I see a vision of a great rucksack revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans wandering around with rucksacks, going up to mountains to pray, making children laugh and old men glad, making young girls happy and old girls happier, all of 'em Zen Lunatics who go about writing poems that happen to appear in their heads for no reason and also by being kind and also by strange unexpected acts keep giving visions of eternal freedom to everybody and to all living creatures.” MenGivingWritingKindChildrenReasonHappensYoungGirlWalksVisionMillionsLaughingJourneyStrangeRevolutionPrayingWalkingMountainCreaturesEternalGladWanderUnexpectedEmsNo ReasonOld ManBe KindHikingTrekkingStrollingSaunteringLiving CreaturesWandering AroundWriting PoemsDharma Bums Author:Gary Snyder
“It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.” GivingTimeStrangeHabitDreadHarry PotterSlow DownPottersStrange ThingsSpeedingConcept Of TimeHarry Potter SeriesDown TimeHarry Potter BirthdaySpeeding Up Author:J. K. Rowling
“Man has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights...sexual intercourse!...His heaven is like himself: strange, interesting, astonishing, grotesque. I give you my word, it has not a single feature in it that he actually values.” MenGivingValuesLeftHeavenSexInterestingStrangeDelightFeaturesAstonishingIntercourseGrotesque Author:Mark Twain
“Calvin: Isn't it strange that evolution would give us a sense of humor? When you think about it, it's weird that we have a physiological response to absurdity. We laugh at nonsense. We like it. We think it's funny. Don't you think it's odd that we appreciate absurdity? Why would we develop that way? How does it benefit us? Hobbes: I suppose if we couldn't laugh at things that don't make sense, we couldn't react to a lot of life.” IfsThinkingWayGivingDoeLaughingStrangeEvolutionBenefitsAppreciateResponseMake SenseOddNonsenseSense Of HumorAbsurdityPhysiologicalHobbesComic Strips Author:Bill Watterson