“Man’s concept of his world built on experience of the five senses is no longer adequate and in many cases no longer valid.” -- Shafica Karagulla (1914 - ca. 1986), Turkish born Medical doctor and psychiatrist who took a special interest in psychic perception.

“He who is being carried does not realize how far the next town is…” -- African proverb

“Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.” -- Sydney Smith (1771-1845), an English wit and Anglican cleric, Wikipedia.

“Great Spirit sings one Truth. Existence is its presentation. The presentations divides into bodies of vibrations. Vibrations impress upon one another, like raindrops meeting in a lake. What we give and what we take becomes the pattern.” -- P. Desmond, “Make Love to the Universe”

“Why not improve life for the world’s poorest first. Is it so impossible to move business from private greed to public good?” -- Anita Lucia Roddick (1942 –2007) a British businesswoman, human rights activist and environmental campaigner, Wikipedia.

“Life is the childhood of our immortality…” -- Johann W. von Goethe (1749–1832), a German writer and statesman, author, poet, wrote treatises on botany, anatomy, and color, Wikipedia.

“Mindfulness is awareness, cultivated by paying attention in a sustained and particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.” -- Jon Kabat-Zinn (b. 1944), “Mindfulness for Beginners,” (2012, 2016)

“Meditation is not something we do; it is something we cease to do. Thus, it could be called self-remembering or self-resting.” -- Rupert Spira (b.1960) international teacher of the Advaita Vedanta. From his book “Being Aware of Being Aware (2017), Wikipedia.

“For human beings, the most daunting challenge is to become fully human. For to become fully human is to become fully divine.” -- Father Thomas Keating (1923 – 2018) American Catholic monk, known as one of the principal developers of Centering Prayer, Wikipedia.

“Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.” -- Carl Jung (1875 – 1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology, influential in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literature, philosophy, and religious studies, Wikipedia.

“Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” -- Francis of Assisi (1181 or 1182 – 1226), venerated as Saint Francis of Assisi, Italian Catholic friar, deacon, philosopher, mystic, and preacher, Wikipedia.

“We mostly spend our lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do... forgetting that none of these verbs have any ultimate significance, except so far as they are transcended by and included in , the fundamental verb, to Be.” Evelyn Underhill (1875 – 1941), Wik.

“May your life be like a wildflower growing freely in the beauty and joy of each day.” -- Native American proverb

“There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.” -- Francis Bacon (1561 – 1626), English philosopher and statesman. His works are credited with developing the scientific method and remained influential through the scientific revolution, Wikipedia.

“The journey of the pilgrims is two steps and no more. One is the passing out of selfhood, And one towards mystical Union with the Friend.” -- Mahmoud Shabestari (1288–1340), Persian Sufi poet of the 14th cent, famous work is a mystic text called “The Secret Rose Garden,” Wik.

“The most exquisite paradox—as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can’t have it. The minute you don’t want power, you’ll have more than you ever dreamed of.” -- Ram Dass (b. Richard Alpert, 1931) American spiritual teacher, Wikipedia

NOTE: To all followers of Ed_4 and aax9: I am sorry to inform you that due to medical problems this is my last tweet. I have very much enjoyed spreading the wisdom of Nisargadatta and others and reading your comments. — Ed Hacker

1/2 To the followers of Endo Ronin and Ed Hacker: This is Ed's stepson Sean (Sean Cole) writing. I'm so sorry to say that Ed passed away on New Year's Eve. My sister and I were with him. He was peaceful and relatively comfortable. Was in home hospice for 5 days with stage IV lung cancer

2/2 He so enjoyed engaging with all of you and sending out daily tweets quoting Nisargadatta among others. I remember him saying it reminded him of teaching. So I thought I should let you all know

We placed his obituary in the Cape Cod Times: capecodtimes.com/obituaries/sto… And my sister set up a memories.com page for him memories.com.au/timeline/edwar… Thanks so much for following Ed's feeds. He was the most wonderful man. We miss him terribly