On the Interconnectedness of Humans

"Our bodies are born of another; language is learned from those around us; our way of understanding the world is largely conditioned by family, friends, teachers; the atmosphere provides us with oxygen; food,water, and for most of us clothing and shelter are dependent on nature and other people. How can we think of ourselves as independent when our very life, moment to moment, depends upon all this and more?"

- Kevin Griffin
One Breath at a Time
BUDDHISM AND THE TWELVE STEPS

On Curiosity

"Soon the child's clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions, preconceptions and abstractions. Simple free being becomes encrusted with the burdensome armor of the ego. Not until years later does an instinct come that a vital sense of mystery has been withdrawn. The sun glints through the pines, and the heart is pierced in a moment of beauty and strange pain, like a memory of paradise. After that day... we become seekers."

- Peter Matthiessen