Be willing to turn your attention to that which serves you.

The dance had distilled her and she had become one with the essence of all that is.

Purge everything that's holding you back. Whatever it is you feel you are being deprived of, trust the limitation serves to bring you more of what you want.

Everything that has ever been beautiful has been burned. Like you.

...lose your mind so that you can gain a new way of knowing.

...purification was the point of such pain.

If you can love all who've betrayed you... you can taste sweetness in everything.

The point is to turn your grief into love. The roses are helping you find grace.

...anyone looking for friends without faults shall remain friendless. The choice is yours.

....it struck her that that perhaps everyone had the ability to see themselves in others. Even in the rocks. Even in the roses.

Love was not the point and pity was a poor man's pride.

So since I'm still here livin', I guess I will live on.I could've died for love--But for livin' I was born.

Humans need to learn the lesson of acceptance when things seem to go awry, know that this is only temporary, your flow of good is assured with acceptance, gratefulness, love and joy. - fairy quote

Mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us.

God has given us the gift of faith that we can take what's unseen and make it part of who we are.

What's one more meaningless act of violence on that zoo of a planet? It would be appropriate. When in Rome; burn it.

Violet! sweet violet! Thine eyes are full of tears; Are they wet Even yet With the thought of other years?

I went through a whole blues period in the Nineties, and that had some influence on 'Load' and 'ReLoad.'

What a lot of people don't know, because in a lot of TV and movies, they have a lot of men talking about computers - it was a woman who invented the first compiler!

You can't think your way out of a box; you've got to act.