Some Richard Back quotes

From the book Messiah's Handbook:

"What many take for realistic is the suppression of their deepest knowing. Why be realistic?"

"A fledgling leaps because it trusts its wings; a lemming leaps because everybody else is doing it. One's an adventure into new dimensions, the other's suicide."

"When the ship of your spirit hits the reef of matter, it's the reef that's smashed to pieces."

"To learn anything, you must put aside the safety of your ignorance."

"Shop for security over happiness and you buy it, at that price."

"Find the greatest teachers, ask the hardest questions, they never say, "Study philosophy," or, "Get your degree." They say, "You already know."