“Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.”- Carl Jung

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”- George Orwell

“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.”- George Orwell

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”- George Orwell

“The moment I name it, it is no longer God; it is man, tree, green, black, red, soft, hard, long, short, anatom, universe. One would readily agree with any theologian who deplores pantheism that these denizens of the world of verbiage and convention, these sundry "things" conceived as fixed and distinct entities, are not God. If you ask me to show you God, I will point to the sun, or a tree, or a worm. But if you say, "You mean, then, that God is the sun, the tree, the worm, and all other things?"-I shall have to say that you have missed the point entirely.”- Alan Watts

“When the listener is totally present, the speaker often communicates differently. Most people aren’t used to being fully heard, and it can be jarring for them. Sometimes we block the flow of information being offered and compromise true listening. Our critical mind may kick in, taking note of what we agree with and what we don’t, or what we like and dislike. We may look for reasons to distrust the speaker or make them wrong. Formulating an opinion is not listening. Neither is preparing a response, or defending our position or attacking another’s. To listen impatiently is to hear nothing at all. Listening is suspending disbelief.”- Rick Rubin

“If you have an idea you’re excited about and you don’t bring it to life, it’s not uncommon for the idea to find its voice through another maker. This isn’t because the other artist stole your idea, but because the idea’s time has come.”- Rick Rubin

“Be here now.”- Ram Dass

“Time itself is a creation of the restless mind; space has been created by the same mind to give itself room to wander when in fact there is no space beyond a mental construct that, like all constructs, eventually turns into a prison.”- Alan Watts

“If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.”- Alan Watts

“Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run, but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant.”- Hunter S. Thompson