The Delok narratives emphasize the universal principles of impermanence and worldly suffering, illustrating how these concepts resonate.

The stories of the Delok reveal a profound interconnectedness between life, death, and the cosmic order.

“One branch of government must have authority to assure that the other branches act within the limits set by the Constitution.”

“If the public comes to see judges as merely ‘politicians in robes,’ its confidence in the courts, and in the rule of law itself, can only decline.”

- Stephen Breyer

“I realized once again that what I believed myself to be was an arbitrary deformation... Health is achieved by overcoming prohibitions, quitting paths that are not right for us, ceasing to pursue imposed ideals, and becoming ourselves.”

- Alejandro Jodorowsky

With music... you can have twenty individuals all talking at the same time, and it’s not noise, it’s a perfect harmony!"

"Wolfgang, you are the curse and the blessing of my life."

"I am a servant of the music. It comes from somewhere and goes somewhere, and I am nothing but the vessel."

“You know that I got a lot of problems. But I’m not a bad guy.”

“You want to know what you did? You went to a bar, and you found a cute girl. Then you made a mistake.”

“You can’t love anybody until you love yourself.”

"What constitutes the dynamic between time and action is the concept of 'change,' and that is what I am interested in exploring."

"In the end, the question is not about the past or the future, but about the immediate experience and how we inhabit time."

- Maya Deren

"The blues are a way of life that’s always been around; if you’re in touch with your inner soul, you’ve got it."

- Big Bill Broonzy

"We are always listening out for new inspiration, so, in some ways, we are both the listeners and the music-makers."

The Heliocentrics with Melvin Van Peebles

“Fighting for peace is like f*ing for chastity.”

“Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been.

“What if there were no grownups? Suppose the whole idea of grownups was an illusion?”

Hearts In Atlantis

"The sword is both a weapon and a symbol of the samurai's life; in the hands of Ryunosuke, it becomes a reflection of his inner turmoil and moral decay."

- Kihachi Okamoto

“which is better - to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?”

“The more a man knows about himself in relation to every kind of experience, the greater his chance of suddenly, one fine morning, realizing who in fact he is...”

― Aldous Huxley

"This morning I woke up in a curfew
O God, I was a prisoner, too
Could not recognize the faces standing over me
They were all dressed in uniforms of brutality (Ay!)

How many rivers do we have to cross?

Weeping and a-wailing tonight
(Who can stop the tears?)"

- Bob Marley

"It’s about a society in free fall. On its way down, it keeps telling itself ‘So far, so good, so far, so good.’ But it’s not about how you fall. It’s about how you land."

- Mathieu Kassovitz

“In Red Beard, I wanted to express the importance of human compassion and the duty we have to care for one another.”

“This film is about life and death, love and care, and ultimately about the human condition.”

- Akira Kurosawa

"We are not isolated beings; we are interconnected. The modern world has become fragmented, isolating us from our own existence."

- Godfrey Reggio

www.godfreyreggiofoundation.org

"The red curtains symbolize layers of reality, behind which lies deeper truths."

- David Lynch

Magna Carta www.worldhistory.org/Magna_Carta/