~~~Do you see the shadows on the wall? They are as real as you. -Z

~~~Once you see the world as One you become All. -Z

~~~The illusion that we are separate from one another is an optical delusion of our consciousness. - Albert Einstein

~~~How do you feel about the police? When you see a police officer do you do a little mental checkup on yourself to see whether you warrant any attention? If the answer is yes, congratulations, you are being oppressed. -Z

~~~Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do. - Jack Kerouac

~~~Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Note: Z is a friend of mine. We went to Colorado together (with a few other friends) to see Sigur Ros in 2002. He is, as we speak, in the center of a spiritual renaissance that promises to shake the foundations of the world as we know it.

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