"We wake, if we ever wake at all, to mystery, rumors of death, beauty, violence."

— Annie Dillard

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

— Oscar Wilde

"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience."

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

"To create is to live twice."

— Albert Camus

"We do not 'come into' this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree."

— Alan Watts