“The duty of a living creature is to be content with the simplest of things and a gratitude for the blessings of every next moment of breath.”

“People are less human and more machine, for it is not a soul which talks through their lips and controls their actions, but rather these addictions to habits and routines.”

“There is a monkey in our minds, serving as a secretary which attempts to keep all of its files neatly organized.”

“Even this, you fools, has happened many times before!”

“There is hardly a less beneficial thing to do for oneself than indulge in justifications which try to make things right.”

“Thinking, feeling, and sensing what was read…”

“Their souls can be likened to inmates confined in a dirt hole with no sunlight and a scant inflow of poisonous air.”

“The heart coils in the confines of the container…”

“The gatekeeper knows we are more prone to weakness and fickle than we are to the struggle and intent to prevail.”

“And each fell with fright to the sight of what was not of any race…”