Community

"To be everywhere is to be nowhere." - Seneca 

Not Cease from Exploration

 "We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." - T.S. Eliot

The Power of Myths

 "We are accustomed to think of myths as the opposite of science.  But in fact they are a central part of it: the part that decides its significance in our lives.  So we very much need to understand them.  Myths are not lies.  Nor are they detached stories.  They are imaginative patterns, networks of powerful symbols that suggest particular ways of interpreting the world.  They shape its meaning." - Mary Midgley, The Myths We Live By

Use of Satire

 "Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them." -- Thomas Jefferson

Success

 "Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill 

Radical Empathy

  "Radical empathy, on the other hand, means putting in the work to educate oneself and to listen with a humble heart to understand another's experience from their perspective, not as we imagine we would feel. Radical empathy is not about you and what you think you would do in a situation you have never been in and perhaps never will.  It is a kindred connection from a place of deep knowledge that opens your spirit to the pain of another as they perceive it."   -- Isabel Wilkerson, from Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent

"We are Our Choices"

"We are our choices."

"Man in condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.  It is up to you to give [life] a meaning."

"Freedom is what you do with what is done to us."

-- Jean-Paul Sartre