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“(1) When a situation has become too frustrating, a quandary too persistently insolvable; when dealing with the issue is generating chronic discontent, infringing on freedom, and inhibiting growth, it may be time to quit beating one’s head against the wall, reach for a big fat stick of metaphoric dynamite, light the fuse, and blast the whole unhappy business nine miles past oblivion. (2) After making an extreme effort, after pulling out all the stops, one is still unable to score Tibetan peach pie, take it as a signal to relax, grin, pick up a fork, and go for a slice of the apple.”
― Tom Robbins, Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life

“Science is not enough, religion is not enough, art is not enough, politics and economics is not enough, nor is love, nor is duty, nor is action however disinterested, nor, however sublime, is contemplation. Nothing short of everything will really do.”
― Aldous Huxley, Island

“Dualism... Without it there can hardly be good literature. With it, there most certainly can be no good life.”
― Aldous Huxley, Island

“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.”
― Edward Abbey