Unless the possibility of genuine transformation is actually declared, unless one is willing to declare it publicly, no one is even going to know that it’s possible.
   - Andrew Cohen

Ecstasy means being unstuck, ongoingly ex-static. So you must commit yourself to an ecstatic life.
   - WIE

So stream to us for towards us
all currents run exquisitely away
Where sky and sea dissolve and merge
Accept the day as all there is,
Knowing you're not to live save by dying
Find Beauty in the womb where pain
Conceals it's cure

Our love is dangerous and pure
Flame from the lips of laughing Gods
Will sigh the elements of sin and burn you clear,
Our love is tremulous and near
If flowing in your breath the rise and fall of
Ecstasy is ever felt, let death blow
Through you as it will and suffer to be sundered when you melt

   - From the Physics of Beauty
   By John Lamb Lash

Fearful always moving mind,
the One who has no beginning
Is thinking of how hunger
may fall away from you.
No ritual,
No religion,
Is needed.
Just cry out one
Unobstructed cry.
   - Lala, 14th century poet

...Until I can know what other men know when they say, "This is where I live,", I will know nothing of worth - and when I can say that and feel it deeply, I'll know most of what I'll ever need to know. "This is where I live". What a thing to know...
   - Lou Welch

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is a daring adventure, or nothing.
   - Helen Keller

Deep root, lofty trunk, dense fliage: from the center of the world rises a thornless tree, one of those trees that knows how to give themselves to the birds. Aroung the tree whirl dancing couples, navel to vavel, undulating to music that wakens stones and sets fire to ice. As they dance, they dress and undress the tree with streaming ribbons of every colour... The tree of life knows that, whatever happens, the warm music spinning around it will never stop. However much death may come, however much blood may flow, the music will dance men and women as lond as the air breathes them and the land plows and loves them.
   - Eduardo Galeano