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• "“What makes us human?” These are the nature of the human being, its interiority, its exteriority and the self."

  — Attributed to Saint Augustine of Hippo

  What makes us human? Augustine on interiority, exteriority and the self

• "The strongest of all warriors are these two—time and patience."

  — Leo Tolstoy

  War and Peace

• "Man’s inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn!"

  — Robert Burns

  Man Was Made To Mourn

• "It is a strange quirk of the human condition that the living tend to take life for granted."

  — Jeremy David Engels

  The Art of Gratitude

• "…the social nature of the human being as the source of our uniquely creative intellectual capacities as well as our capacity for anxiety."

  — Rollo May

  The Meaning of Anxiety

• "Just tell me how you judge your childhood and youth, and I will tell you who you are."

  — Søren Kierkegaard

  As cited in: The Quotable Kierkegaard

• "The prudent man aspires not to pleasure, but to the absence of pain."

  — Aristotle

  Nicomachean Ethics

• "Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men."

  — Seneca

  Seneca Essays: On Providence

• "Daily life, if one is alert to the dynamics of the unconscious, brings us to new levels of realization not only about where we are but who we are."

  — Father Thomas Keating

  The Human Condition: Contemplation and Transformation

• "The garden is a spiritual place where the mind dwells."

  — Shunmyo Masuno

  Zen Garden Design

• "Nature is always moving and transforming, and Japanese gardens express this quality through the use of plants and trees that move with the wind and change over the seasons."

  Zen Garden Design

• "Inner Bonding is a process of connecting our Adult thoughts with our instinctual gut feelings, the feelings of our “Inner Child,” so that we can live free of conflict within ourselves."

  — Margaret Paul

  Inner Bonding

• "When you know the answer you won’t ask the question."

  — Unknown Zen Master

  Alan Watts, Psychotherapy East & West