Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
-Søren Kierkegaard
Most people would look at an animal in a cage and instinctively feel that it should be set free. . . . It's a dangerous world out there, filled with predators. . . . What would you prefer? A comfortable, safe, warm, cosy life in a cage, or an uncertain life of freedom.
-Scarlett Thomas
True realisation of the actual nature of this material world, its perishable, transitory and illusory aspects best dawns on a person in suffering.