Whenever people are certain they understand our peculiar situation here on this planet, it is because they have accepted a religious Faith or

Whenever people are certain they understand our peculiar situation here on this planet, it is because they have accepted a religious Faith or a secular Ideology Ideologies are the modern form of Faiths and just stopped thinking.

–
Robert Anton Wilson

He had learned that, as there is no situation in the world in which a man can be happy and perfectly free, so there is no situation in which

He had learned that, as there is no situation in the world in which a man can be happy and perfectly free, so there is no situation in which he can be perfectly unhappy and unfree.

–
Leo Tolstoy,

War and Peace

What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your

What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your attention A dash, one or two inches long, between the date of birth and date of death on your gravestone.

–
Eckhart Tolle