"My philosophy, in essence, is simple: be conscious. From this point everything else follows intuitively - the realization of the cosmos as an elegant synergy of living fields; of the world as a savage garden of varying horror and beauty; of our place within it as a fragile, miraculous, at times heroic and often tragic fleeing of moments; and of one another as evanescent reflections radiating into essential differences serving only to illumine a deeper spiritual unity - one wherein wisdom is better than youth, vulnerability more fulfilling than invincibility and growth more precious than all the treasures of Eden. And perhaps most astonishing is the realization that within all this, the gateway traversing the distance to this paradise - the distance to here - resides nowhere else than in the simplicity of a single decision to be made, right here, right now: to be, or not to be, conscious. This alone is the only question of any true and lasting significance." -M.A. Carrano