Undisguised

"I will go to the bank by the wood and become undisguised and naked,: I am mad for it to be in contact with me."

---Walt Whitman

Three Stages

"All truth passes through three stages. First it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed, and third it is accepted as self-evident."

---Arthur Schopenhauer

Excellence

"With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must also try to have and use it."

---Aristotle


photo: screen legend Yul Brynner

Volunteer

"We're in a free-fall into the future. We don't know where we're going. Things are changing so fast. And as always when you're going through a long tunnel, anxiety comes along. And all you have to do to transform your hell into a paradise is to turn your fall into a voluntary act. It's a very interesting shift of perspective...joyfully participate in the sorrows of the world and everything changes."

---Joseph Campbell, "Sukhavati--The Place of Bliss"

Indecent

"Sweet, sane, still Nakedness in Nature!--ah if poor, sick, prurient humanity in cities might really know you once more! Is not nakedness then indecent? No, not inherently. It is your thought, your sophistication, your fear, your respectability that is indecent."

---Walt Whitman

Forward

"How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?"

---John Lennon

The Edge

"I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center."

---Kurt Vonnegut

Courage

"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others."

---Robert Louis Stevenson