“… it’s like frostbite: at first you don’t feel anything, because your’re frozen. You don’t even think you have a problem. But then you start to warm up the frozen part, and it hurts like hell. The cure, the warming up, is horrible. Advanced meditation is especially a fast warming up, a waking up, and it usually hurts like hell.”

from Ken Wilber, “One Taste”, S. 356

“Well, we’ve found something extraordinary. Extraordinary and disturbing, that is.”

“You recall what you said in New Delhi about how polar melting…

…might disrupt the North Atlantic Current?”

“Yes.”

“Well… I think it’s happening.”

from Roland Emmerich, “The Day after Tomorrow”