THE NUANCE EPIGRAPHS

 CANTO 1: LIFE AND DEATH 

We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic.
                                        -- Edward Merrill Root

 Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
                                              -- Albert Einsteinin 

CANTO 2: HUMAN DIFFERENCE 

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. 
                                      -- George Bernard Shaw

The language of the human species is creativity. The universe has created them to look at her and understand her and to look into her and re-create her.
                                           -- Author, The Nuance
 

CANTO 3: SUBJECTION 

Not complete inaction, which is an error, a confusion, a self-delusion, an impossibility, but action full and free done without subjection to sense and passion, desireless and unattended works, are the first secret of perfection. 
                                                   -- Sri Aurobindo 

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.
                                                       -- Antisthenes

CANTO 4: LIFE AND SOUL

The Soul is the voice of the body's interests.

                                             -- George Santayana

This intrepid warrior for truth, this cultured, courteous citizen of the world, this devastating, coruscating enemy of lies and cant -- well, may be he has no immortal soul -- none of us has.
                                              -- Richard Dawkins 

CANTO 5: CONFUSION 

 
Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
                                                     -- Isaac Newton 

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
                                                             -- Lao Tzu

CANTO 6: IMPERFECTION 

When life is uncertain and death inevitable, life is imperfect. When life is imperfect, living is bound to be imperfect. And any action or thought that is connected to living is imperfect. 

                                           -- Author, The Nuance

We accept death means we accept a life that is imperfect. So we live imperfectly. Imperfection is the cause of inhumanity.

                                          -- Author, The Nuance 

 
CANTO 7: LIBERATION 

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.
                                         -- Friedrich Nietzsche

The awakening of consciousness is the next revolutionary step for mankind.
                                                     -- Eckhart Tolle 

CANTO 8: BODY AND SPIRIT 

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit. 
                                             -- Stephen Hawking 

Far from being demeaning to human spiritual values, scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of the human spirit. 
                                              -- Richard Dawkins 

 
CANTO 9: EXTINCTION 

Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.
                                            -- Arnold J. Toynbee

One fine day, a purely predatory world shall consume itself. Yes, the Devil shall take the hindmost until the foremost is the hindmost. In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction. 
                                                 -- David Mitchell 

CANTO 10: STAGNATION 

This life we live nowadays. It's not life, it's stagnation death-in-life. Look at all these bloody houses and the meaningless people inside them. Sometimes I think we are all corpses, just rotting upright. 

                                                   -- George Orwell 

In a stagnant environment the body-mind creates its own adversity -- disease and fantasy.

                                                  -- Peter J. Carroll 

CANTO 11: CONTINUUM 

Life is constant movement as well as constant change. Things live by moving and gain strength as they go.

                                                  -- Bruce Lee

The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around. 
                                         -- Thomas Alva Edison

 
CANTO 12: OBSTRUCTION 

Conscious evolution begins as we take responsibility for clearing our own obstructions. 

                                               -- Daniel J Millman 

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. 

                                      -- Henry David Thoreau 

CANTO 13: THE HUMAN SYSTEM 

Like a drug, the machine is useful, dangerous and habit forming. The oftener one surrenders to it the tighter its grip becomes. 
                                                    -- George Orwell 

Modernity is a deal. The entire contract can be summarised in a single phrase: humans agree to give up meaning in exchange for power. 
                                            -- Yuval Noah Harari 

CANTO 14: REALIZATION 

O people of the earth, men and women born and made of the elements, but with the spirit of the Divine within you, rise from the sleep of your ignorance! Be sober and thoughtful. Realize that your home is not on the earth but in the Light. Why have you delivered yourselves unto death, having power to partake of immortality?
                                                      -- Muata Ashby

Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain. 

                                                      -- Tom Robbins

 
CANTO 15: DREAM CIVILIZATION 

Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence, and a belief in our right and our responsibility to become equal members of society. 
                                                   -- Janet Jackson

Common be the prayer of these assembled worshippers, common be the acquirement, common the purpose, associated be the desire, I repeat for you common prayer... Common be your intention; common be the wishes of your hearts, common be your thoughts, so that there may be a thorough union among you.
                                                       -- Rig Ved

CANTO 16: TRANSFORMATION 

Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that's precise, predictive and reliable - a transformation, for those lucky enough to experience it, that is empowering and emotional. 
                                                        -- Brian Green 

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

                                                   -- Alexander Pope 

CANTO 17: RE-CREATION 

I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.
                                                          -- J G Ballard 

Everything we do, every thought we've never had, is produced by the human brain. But exactly how it operates remains one of the biggest unsolved mysteries, and it seems the more we probe its secrets, the more surprises we find.
                                          -- Neil deGrasse Tyson

ENDING EPIGRAPH 

The language of the human species is creativity. The universe has created them to look at her and understand her and to look into her and re-create her.
                                           -- Author, The Nuance