“There have been millions of persons who have awakened to their true reality, who have been called “enlightened” in many civilizations. They have not seen the universe the way we moderns are taught to see it – as a vast, dark, freezing void.  Ours is an impossibly paranoid, isolated vision. No wonder we feel weird. We conceive our living to be such, a rare exception, so fragile, so meaningless.”
- Robert Thurman