humans

"Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?--every, every minute?"

"I believe that there is only one story in the world...Humans are caught--in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too--in a net of good and evil...A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean question: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well--or ill?"

Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.

The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.

Our false self is the last remnant of the animal nature within our psyche: the last problem humans are to overcome in order to be fully human.

In order to satisfy one human stomach, so many lives are taken away. We must promote vegetarianism. It is extremely important.

Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash; that one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

If man were crossed with a cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat

One is expected to know things, to believe things.  Knowing and believing are all in your head - there is nothing in your heart.  If you cannot feel that the earth is your grandmother, then of course you will find it easy to rape her, to behave as if she is under your dominion.  You will find it easy to believe that we humans are the dominant species, and to act as though the earth and everything on it are ours to do with as we please.  ... if all human beings were taken away, life on earth would flourish.

The Telesterion Statement:

"This is the most important spiritual realization of our time; that we humans are large-brained animals on the surface of a planet."

- Bill Eichman  "Almost nobody get's this one. A classic example of 'Can't see the forest for the trees'."