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“The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef” – Unknown

“Part of the fascination of the TM site is the way we discover, define, explore, expand, and explain ourselves via something we greatly love. This is similar to what we did as children, in that intense, concentrated form of play where we might not have appeared to be having “fun” but our minds were deeply involved and the synapses were sparking like an electrical storm. Some of what we do on TMs can be very much like school for our brains, but without the onus of obligation. We are there purely out of choice and desire; nothing is required of us except that we enjoy ourselves. That gives us the freedom to relax and remember that part of ourselves that was JUST “ourself,” the essence of the unique individual we were before we were defined by all our many roles.

“TMs gives us an arena where we can safely bring our essential being out into the open and let it twirl, the same way we spun in circles as little girls to see our dresses make halos around us.” – Jaime Jacobs (shimmerskin)

“When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives.” – Ezra T. Benson

“Everything we do is a choice. Oatmeal or cereal. Highway or side streets. Kiss her or keep her. We make choices and we live with the consequences. If someone gets hurt along the way we ask for forgiveness. It’s the best anyone can do.”
~Ned, The Pie Maker from Pushing Daisies

“[...] everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms-to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
-Viktor Frankl