One of my biggest fears is that I'm going to die alone in my home, and my cats will eat me because I am too dead to open their food cans.

— Kelli Jae Baeli

Progress should never be impeded by a need to coddle adults who respond to the world as children.

— Kelli Jae Baeli

Real connection (and if it's LOVE, then real love)--goes beyond those not-so-perfect and superficial and idiosyncratic things that simply make us individuals. The trust and longevity of a relationship between two individuals is established through time and learning each other, and discovering a harmony at the core of their connection. And it becomes powerful because of where it resides--at the center of who we are--the very essence of our being.

— Kelli Jae Baeli

Regarding Christians who feel they have a free pass on being criticized; When the blind worship of an invisible being and the doctrine of millennia-old texts written by ignorant men in another country becomes more important than real, present human beings, then the blind worshiper SHOULD be shunned and criticized. It would be unethical to respond otherwise.

— Kelli Jae Baeli

Some people have goodness and merit buried deep inside, and we glimpse it and see its value, but ultimately it's covered by so much dirt that it's a 24/7 exercise in archaeology.

— Kelli Jae Baeli

Sully's, on South Prospect, was the quintessential biker-bar, complete with hefty, leather-clad Harley worshipers, and stringy-haired heroin-addicted women who made the rounds among the bikers. Its decor was decidedly Medieval Garage Sale, with a dose of Americana thrown in. An old motorcycle carcass dangled from the vaulted section of the beamed ceiling, and the wood plank floors were littered with butts, scarred by bottle caps and splattered with homogenized bodily fluids. The only light to be had was from neon, dying sconces, and lit cigarettes. Various medieval swords perched on each wall, reminiscent of the times of Beowulf and Fire Dragons on the Barrow.

— Kelli Jae Baeli

The conundrum of sanity and insanity, is that it serves us to be some of each. It's really only a question of degrees. You cannot possibly be 100% adjusted and live in this INSANE world. A little bit of crazy is a coping skill.

— Kelli Jae Baeli

These thrill seeker people doing extreme sports...they have a hideous accident, go through agonizing recovery, and then go back to that activity that nearly killed them...that's not facing your fear, that's embracing your stupidity.

— Kelli Jae Baeli

The supernatural worldview is causing a great number of otherwise intelligent people to cling to a collection of atavistic concepts that have not, and will never serve humanity in any ultimately beneficial way. Any benefits that spirituality ostensibly provides to its adherents, can be found equally in the worldview of philosophy and ethics, communities of other kinds, and so on. It's a myth that the only morality, hope, purpose and comfort to be found, resides only in the supernatural.

— Kelli Jae Baeli

What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger...unless it instead snaps your spine. Then it makes you a paraplegic.

— Kelli Jae Baeli