“We turn ourselves into beasts so that we may cope with being human.”
“We humans fear the beast within the wolf because we do not understand the beast within ourselves”
“According to ayurveda, we become what we surround ourselves with. And so it stands to reason that we have to be discerning about what we surround ourselves with." Steve Cope [p. 85]”
“We distract ourselves with details. It's a way of coping.”
“The task that remains is to cope with our interdependence - to see ourselves reflected in every other human being and to respect and honor our differences.”
“The imagination made us human, but being human, becoming more human, is a greater burden than we imagined. We have no choice but to imagine ourselves more human than we are.”