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1 " This book is about our lives and legacy as men connected through blood and– should nature have its way– the ultimate choice we as sons face to preserve our father’s legacy or to torch it to build something new. "
― Ross Victory , Views from the Cockpit: The Journey of a Son
2 " As sons we have that choice: we can own what was done to us and choose to do better or we can do worse and continue a theme of broken men. [Broken men break other men. Broken men break women. Broken men break families. Broken men create broken legacies]. "
― Ross Victory
3 " Maybe there will be a day where anyone who suggests they are gay or straight will be labeled archaic and extreme, or at least evoke a hearty laugh from the terms’ irrelevance to the quest for fulfillment and inner peace. "
― Ross Victory , Panorama: The Missing Chapter: From the Memoir Views from the Cockpit
4 " God has nothing to do with church business. "
5 " I saw portraits of pain and snapshots of hope—they appeared as complex energies, softly kaleidoscopic, levitating in air with no connotations to joy or pain. "
6 " The “confusion” that straight and gay colonizers claim bisexuals experience is because there are no influential cultural templates for bisexuals/ fluid/pansexual people to cling to, nor is their experience politically validated. "
7 " What if we taught kids that safe sex includes STD-free bodies—yes, but also the careful selection of partners as to not absorb, carry, and accumulate the spiritual debris of an unhealed person, which is more disruptive in the long term than an unwanted pregnancy. "
8 " Let’s sail these uncharted waters for sixty years and leave the BS for the philosophers. "
9 " Societies and communities change—dictionaries are rewritten; people and ideas die off. The point is for us to develop so much that when we outgrow the awareness of the community, we willfully reach back to pull others forward with our knowledge. "
10 " What message is implied by a masculine man’s sexual power to want women and men? Is the fear that he cannot be easily tamed, punished or rewarded? "
11 " Your bisexuality is cute, but the world I advocate for has limits that I adhere to — being bisexual, fluid, pan, sapio, no label, whatever the f*ck you are, challenges our systems, and the choices I have made personally. "
12 " We will NEVER permit healthy visibility of your circumstances. Polyamory will never trend, and projections show monogamy increasing as the cost of living goes up. "
13 " The condition of our soul and the fitness of our mind can reveal cancer or vitality in our body. "
14 " We all deserve the love that lingers like delicate smoke from a blown-out candle, reaching for heaven. It’s the possibilityof this brand of love, Bridge-building love, that reminds me that humans are worth the effort. "
15 " The airplanes slowly taxied to the beginning of the runway, humbly and calmly with flaps down, bowing with deference to the infinite sky. "
16 " I did not want to fight. I did not want to argue. I just wanted to look into her eyes to get a sense of her soul’s motivation. "
17 " The elixir of life, I think, starts in our mind—the willful exploration of the subconscious and choosing our experience over external factors. Perhaps the elixir originates from an internal throbbing—an ache—a voice driving us to search. Dare we DECIDE to give voice to our journey and elect to be cured by the peace and confidence in purpose it brings. "
