“The hindrances can be like “black holes” in the mind. A black hole is a collapsed star where the gravitational force is so powerful that even light is sucked in and trapped. When the hindrances are strong, the light of awareness is pulled into their gravitational field and we lose our ability to see what is happening. We may get lost in thought or fantasy fueled by a hindrance.”—Gil Fronsdal (Hinderances to Clear Seeing)

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”—Victor Frankl (Man’s Search for Meaning)

“You are the universe experiencing itself. You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing. ” – Alan Watts