"The problem is that there's this big gap between who we are as a people and how our politics expresses itself."

~ Barack Obama

"One thing that you find in most of the great wisdom traditions is the idea that reality as we see it is an illusion, it’s a veil, it blinds us, and enlightenment is taking down the veil, seeing things as they are, transcending dualities. And that, I think, is really crucial for thinking about civility, because that’s what happened to me in writing this book and in doing this research."

~ Jonathan Haidt