Creating Closure in Life's Final Moments

“The thing about history, you never realize you’re in the middle of history or you’re making history until you look back”

-Reg Kittrelle (on seeing Janis Joplin)

“A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It’s my favorite part of the business, live concerts.”

-Richard Eyre

“My motorcycle had once again taken me to the place I did not know I needed to be.”

-Justin Crowley

“My dad always told me that motorcycles were hazardous and if he ever caught me on one he’d kill me.”

-Vic Anderson

“The only time I feel at all competent, skilled and graceful is when I’m riding.”

-John Roseburg

“I asked God for a bike but I know he doesn’t work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness. “

-Emo Philips

“For all the risks motorcycle riding carries, a world of peace lives between the sky and where my tires touch the road.”

-Rob Campbell

“Across decades of motorcycling, expect to experience many memorable moments.”

-Curt Relick

“Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.”

-Hunter S. Thompson

“My car is only used in bad weather. “

-Jamie Cruz

“Motorcycles are a physical representation and a way to bodily experience my core value of freedom in its most joyful form.”

-Tania Davidson

“I’ve never seen a motorcyclist at a psychiatrist’s office.”

-Jamie Cruz

“I take to the open road, healthy free, the world before me.”

-Walt Whitman

“On a cycle you’re in complete contact with it all. You’re in the scene, not just watching it anymore, and the sense of presence is overwhelming.”

-Robert M. Pirsig

“If you can’t get it going with bungee cords, wire and duct tape, it’s serious.”

-Anonymous

“Sunshine and golf keep the mind at ease”

-Unknown

“Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.”

-Henry David Thoreau

“In losing complete awareness of time, I felt pure freedom. I was becoming one
with the sea.”

-Michelle Segrest on sailing

“Jobs fill your pockets, but adventures fill your soul.”

-Jaime Lyn Beatty

“And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.”

-John Muir

“The best part of climbing is when it all clicks and gravity ceases to exist.”

-Chris Sharma

“It doesn’t have to be fun to be fun.”

-Barry Blanchard on climbing

“One does not climb mountains to attain enlightenment, rather one climbs because they are enlightened.”

-Zen Master Futomaki

“Hiking is my religion”

-Sarah Sargent

“I was down in the ocean at 60 feet, floating with only the sounds of my air tank
and the water bubbles moving upward. And then I noticed I had crossed this
ledge drop-off that went forever, and I was suspended in a most enjoyable
“nothing”. It was totally spiritual.”

-George McDonald

“I like motorcycles so much because they represent freedom.”

-Dennis Schang

“There are things you do in life where you cross a threshold and there is no going back. Your life will never be what is was before you crossed that threshold.”

-Steve. Shiffer

“The day when science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than all the previous centuries of it’s existence”

-Nikola Tesla

“The analytic mind is a beautiful servant and a lousy master.”

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“You keep asking, “Where do I come from?” Well, you don’t come from anywhere. Everything comes from you.”

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“Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.”

-Marianne Williamson

“If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.”

-Lao Tzo

“Life is the dancer and you are the dance”

-E. Tolle

“When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.”

-Victor Frankl

“I’d rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned”

-R. Feyman

“Death comes to experience, not to you”

-Deepak Chopra

“The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and sense he has attained liberation from the Self”

-A. Einstein

“We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it”

-Willie Nelson

“We’ve had it all wrong. We are not physical. We are consciousness”

-Eben Alexander

“One of the most bizarre premises of quantum theory, which has long fascinated philosophers and physicists alike, states that by the very act of watching, the observer affects the observed reality.”

-Weizmann Institute of Science

“The question is not “What is the meaning of life?” The real problem is trying to formulate the right question.”

-Elon Musk

“We are spirits in the material world”

-Sting

“I’m not afraid of death because I don’t believe in it. It’s just getting out of one car, and into another.”

-John Lennon

“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.”

-Rumi

“The more real you get, the more unreal the world gets.”

-John Lennon

“There’s more to our existence than meets the eye.”

-Brandon Fugal

“I learned that our purpose on earth is to live the fullest life possible and to help others.”

-Woman who had a Near Death Experience

“When you lose your fear of dying, you lose your fear of living.”

-Bruce Greyson M.D.

“The brain is a reducing valve that restricts consciousness.”

-Aldous Huxley

“You can’t find what you’re not looking for.”

-Lynette Nisbet

“When you follow intuition, solutions come to you and you don’t know how or why.”

-Albert Einstein

“Creativity is linked to intuition.”

-Gavin De Becker