Are we alone? Over time, you will come up with various answers to that same nagging question. Eventually one day it will occur to you that this endless asking is the answer you have been...

To be enlightened is to know oneself and not run away.

Military parades roll down the Champs-Elysees, but pedestrians stroll up [“East Meets West on the Champs-Elysees,” Metropolis, March 2006, p73]