By translating their inner turmoil or understanding into art, artists challenge the accepted notions of reality and create new ones.

After a few years of meditation practice we can even learn how to occasionally ignore ourselves. And what relief that can be!

Artists are visited by the Muses, or tormented by their own passions and demons.

A belief in reincarnation would at least give us some slack; we would have many lifetimes to get it right.

Empires rise and fall like the abdomen of God. It's just the universe breathing.

Poetry is the special medium of spiritual crazy wisdom, the form of expression that comes closest to creating a bridge between words and what is wordless.

Artists speak to a different part of us, bypassing the cloudy filter of reason and the fears and prejudices of the habitual mind.

If you don't like the news go out and make some of your own.

But like balloons, they were excessively buoyant, and if you weren't careful, they floated away.

For the first time in his life, a teacher was pointing out things that Ender had not already seen for himself. For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire.

When fathers are tongue tied religiously with their offspring, need they wonder if their children's hearts remain sin tied?

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Taking fear seriously is not easy. A lot of people's response to fear is "Don't worry so much, it's crazy." But some things absolutely deserve our fear, and climate change is first among them.

There's something liberating about watching someone not following the rules.

I'm from East Berlin. I grew up in the Bertold Brecht, Kurt Weil tradition, also in the old hippie tradition.

Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete.

Do not worry if all the candles in the world flicker and die. We have the spark that starts the fire.

There is a difference between him who claspeth his mistress in his arms, and him whose eyes are fixed on the door expecting her.