All too many people are corks on the sea of life. They don’t live life, they are lived by life.

Christopher S Hyatt, Black Book Volume 1: Principles of Extreme Living

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Consider also:

  1. “The pain-bearing obstructions are — ignorance, egoism, attachment, aversion and clinging to life.”
  2. The following excerpt is taken from a thirty second YouTube video simply entitled, ‘How to Start a Mob’:
  3. “You have to contribute and make a difference. Being free of sin is not enough.”
  4. “There is a law governing all things. There is a connecting link between earth, air and sea, between flowers, beasts and birds, between mankind and all animals, and inanimate things, a mysterious joining of mind to matter. It is an intangible something, perhaps an electrical current, but certain it is that the line is there and unbroken, and between every human creature whom God has made, there is the same unbroken chain, which can be followed up link by link, step by step, until we find ourselves on the boundaries of the next world and perhaps beyond; who can tell? The chain may be unbroken even then.”
  5. “Most religions focus on the ultimate ‘truth’. There seem to be different versions of this.”