Cody Kuiack

“Sometimes naked, sometimes mad. Now the scholar, now the fool.
Thus they appear on earth: the free men.”
― Dattātreya, Avadhuta Gita

“If you try to convert someone, it will never be to
effect his salvation but to make him suffer like yourself,
to be sure he is exposed to the same ordeals and
endures them with the same impatience. You keep
watch, you pray, you agonize-provided he does too,
sighing, groaning, beset by the same tortures that are
racking you. Intolerance is the work of ravaged souls
whose faith comes down to a more or less deliberate
torment they would like to see generalized, instituted.
The happiness of others never having been a motive
or principle of action, it is invoked only to appease
conscience or to parade noble excuses: whenever we
determine upon an action, the impulse leading to it
and forcing us to complete it is almost always inadmissible.
No one saves anyone; for we save only ourselves,
and do so all the better if we disguise as
convictions the misery we want to share, to lavish on
others. However glamorous its appearances, proselytism
nonetheless derives from a suspect generosity,
worse in its effects than a patent aggression. No one
is willing to endure alone the discipline he may even
have assented to, nor the yoke he has shouldered.
Vindication reverberates beneath the missionary's
bonhomie, the apostle's joy. We convert not to liberate
but to enchain.
Once someone is shackled by a certainty, he envies
your vague opinions, your resistance to dogmas or
slogans, your blissful incapacity to commit yourself.”
― Emil M. Cioran, The Fall into Time

“The man who enters Cosmic Consciousness is really a new creature, and all his surroundings “become new” - take on a new face and meaning.”
― Richard Maurice Bucke, Cosmic Consciousness: A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind

“Kindly let me help you or you will drown said the monkey putting the fish safely up a tree.”
― Alan W. Watts