I would like to take a moment to pay my respects to some of the writers and thinkers who have most influenced my mind. In somewhat chronological order:
- Bahá’u’lláh
- `Abdu’l-Bahá
- Leo Tolstoy
- Alan Watts
- Lao Tzu
- Plato (Socrates)
- Carl Jung
- Ayn Rand
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
- Orson Scott Card
- Robert Pirsig
- Jalálu’d-Dín Rúmí
- Farídu’d-Dín `Attár
- Jean Paul Sartre
- Greg Egan