"We need to work mindfully to keep our eyes healthy and clean, because they get caked with the daily grime of life. We're the guardians of our own inner light. It's important to protect it, nurture it, and share it. If we don’t, it'll fade until we can’t see it anymore."
David Jones @ The Tattooed Buddha
“A man without tattoos is invisible to the gods”
~ Iban Proverb
"Tattoos are a way of taking things that are deep, precious and internal, and bringing them to the surface, in ink, so others can see them."
Again: what is the Self?
'If we stop clinging to Self, only to turn around and cling to No Self, have we really progressed any towards truth? It’s still clinging to views. In an effort to deconstruct these teachings, let’s try something.
What if there is a Self, but it doesn’t mean what we’ve always thought it meant? Sometimes we first have to shed our old views of something to finally see it. Can’t see the new if the old gets in the way all the time.'
Yes Self? No Self? Maybe Self?
"Things would get better if we grew up and realised that the self is fluid and open, that no one does anything without the support of millions of others making it possible. If you’re looking for Buddha, it’s just this very absence of fixity in Being."
Solar Branka 
