Sheeps and magicians

“… the magician suggested to his sheep that they were not sheep at all; to some of them he suggested that they were lions, to others that they were eagles, to others that they were men, and to others that they were magicians.”
G. I. Gurdjieff, 1922 (In Ouspensky, In Search of the Miraculous)

The value of life

“The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.”
Aristotle

A product?

“I don’t want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me.”
Frank Costello, as played by Jack Nicholson in The Departed (2006)