My answer is, follow your bliss.  There’s something inside you that knows you’re in the center, that knows you’re on the beam, that knows you’re off the beam.  And if you get off the beam to earn money, you’ve lost your life.

        -- Joseph Campbell  (“Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth” on PBS)

Refined sugar creates disease faster in living tissue than any other food item.

        -- Tom Basler M.D.  (1979)

Religion is a defense against a religious experience.

        -- Carl Jung

Human beings corrupted by eating animal flesh pursue philosophy in an effort to contribute positively to the cosmic cycle.

        -- Empedocles  (Greek philosopher, 5th century BCE)

Think of the millions of squabs that preaching, praying men and women kill and eat, with all sorts of other animals great and small, young and old, while eloquently discoursing on the coming of the blessed peaceful, bloodless millenium!

        -- John Muir  (“The Story of My Boyhood and Youth”)