Animals II
"All men who would surpass the other animals should do their utmost not to go through life unheralded like the brutes whom nature made to face the ground, obedient to their bellies." – Sallust, The War with Catiline, 40 B.C.
"Spiritual power begins by directing animal power to other than egoistic ends." [...]
Resurrection
"To be cured [of our societal neuroses], we must rise from our graves and throw off the cerements of the dead. Nobody can do it for another – it is a private affair which is best done collectively. We must die as egos and be born again in the swarm, not separate and self-hypnotized, [...]
Self
"…nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's self is…" – Walt Whitman, Song of Myself
"One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star." – G.K.Chesterton
