“For the most part we humans live with the false impression of security and a feeling of being at home in a seemingly trustworthy physical and human environment.”

“We are not Human Beings experiencing spiritual lives, we are spiritual beings experiencing human lives.”

“To be human is to care for your fellow human beings and protecting the environment.”

“Psychiatrist R. D. Laing, among others, has said that the growing incidence of mental illness these days may be explained in part by the fact that the world we call real and which we ask people to live within and understand is itself open to question. The environment we live in is no longer connected to the mix of planetary processes which brought us all into being. It is solely the product of human mental processes. It is real, but only in the way that a theatrical play or a fun house is real. Our artificial environment is there and we can experience it, yet it has been created on purpose by other humans. It is an interpretation of reality; it no longer reveals how nature works and it cannot provide much useful information to human beings who seek to see their own lives as part of some wider natural process. We are left with no frame of reference untouched by human interpretation.”

“A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment.”

“All this long human story, most passionate and tragic in the living, was but an unimportant, a seemingly barren and negligible effort, lasting only for a few moments in the life of the galaxy.”

“We are feelings and have human beings.”

“Human beings are largely motivated by their emotional repertoire, manifested through their need for attachment, physical security, a sense of belonging and a positive personal and collective identity.”

“For some queer and deplorable reason most human beings are more impressed by words than by figures, to the great disadvantage of mankind.”

“Going through the history of economic, cultural and human exchanges in the most cultivated, tumultuous, lively, and cosmopolitan part of the world-Western Europe being its centre-we discover a wide unted universe”