“Humans have always believed in the possibility of another life, of a second act.”

Physical immortalists today, those who think science will find a way to keep us young forever, would call Hanaya Yanagihara scenario the Tithonus error.

The military-industrial complex lubricates the mass-agriculture system with fossil fuels.

No one wants to live forever if it means becoming increasingly decrepit.

This is a comment on fear. Today it’s like ‘They’re going to bomb the New York subway and there’s the avian flu and 50 million of us are going to die.’

Like our ancestors, we act in ways that will bemuse future societies.

We’ve also always hoped that there might be a way to avoid dying.

If manufacturers are so sure there is nothing wrong with genetically modified foods, pesticides and cloned meats, they should have no problems labeling them as such.

They think they’ll find another way. I’m not so sure. It seems like her book views immortality as a dangerous desire.

Not everyone wants to live forever, but every culture has always desired immortality in one way or another.

Tons of heavy metals and other hazardous, even radioactive, waste is sprayed on American agricultural soil.

The term “cultural-universal” is a complicated one, but I’ve heard it come up on numerous occasions while researching immortality.

After all, cancer will kill one in every two men and one in every three women now alive, reports Samuel Epstein, chairman of the Cancer Prevention Coalition.

We wanted to make fun of that fear-based culture we’ve been plunged into. And Halloweens the perfect metaphor for fear.

I was sitting on my own in a restaurant, when I saw a beautiful woman at another table.

Regarding this Dhamma, it is not something that we can simply talk about or take another’s word for it.

Another man understands that nature of the river is to change constantly, regardless of his likes and dislikes, and therefore he does not suffer.

For this occurs just as clay is first molded into one, then shaped into another form, for the Devil is a potter and his witches are but clay.

We need to develop meditation so that the understanding arises clearly within oneself. It is not the case that merely by listening to another’s explanation our defilements will disappear.

The forms of the world have their place, but in another way, there is nothing there. To be free, we need to respect both of these truths.

I think the pearls – one is a necklace, and another you have five hundred pounds of pearls, which may be one million pearls in a bowl – really show a kind of [society] condition.

If you think that people should be nice to one another, then by all means be nice. But when you project that belief onto the people and the world around you as if it were an objective reality, or worse still.