MacheteJeff

“Life could be brutal, but that such brutality did not define life or its purpose, and that the sexes were not rivals, but meant to share together in the work and joys of life.”
― Terry Goodkind, Phantom

“Like fish in water, people in a culture swim in the virtually invisible medium of culturally sanctioned yet artificial states of mind.”
― Terence McKenna, Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge

“Faith is a device of self-delusion, a sleight of hand done with words and emotions founded on any irrational notion that can be dreamed up. Faith is the attempt to coerce truth to surrender to whim. In simple terms, it is trying to breath life into a lie by trying to outshine reality with the beauty of wishes. Faith is the refuge of fools, the ignorant, and the deluded,not of thinking rational people.”
― Terry Goodkind, Chainfire

“We are alone, but to die alone is not to die in loneliness.”
― Carlos Castaneda, Tales of Power