Every pain, addiction, anguish, longing, depression, anger or fearis an orphaned part of usseeking joy, some disowned shadow wanting to returnto the lightand homeof ourselves.

Blessed are the weird people: poets, misfits, writersmystics, painters, troubadoursfor they teach us to see the world through different eyes.

Living is art.Breathing and heart beating is music.Seeing is painting the world with our eyes.Touching is sculpting the shape of everything.Life is the most intense art of all.

Writer's block is just another name for fear.

With poetry and writing, the question isn’t “do you know the right words?”.The real question is, “can you make words from the unwordable, chisel blocks of raw silence into shapes and touch our souls?

We are doing the most important possible work in the world when we open the door and reveal our creative nature. It is the work of the Universe itself.

We wait, starving for moments of high magic to inspire us, but life is full of common enchantment waiting for our alchemists eyes to notice.

Dare to dream again.For dreaming is the language of your soul, And nothing your soul truly desires could ever be wrong or impossible.

Your enormous soul had so many choices of who it could show up as. It chose you.

Be like the sun

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

I don't understand these new coaches who don't drink. What do they do when they get beat?

If we desire peace, we must prepare for peace. The most important thing is to build a culture of peace.

Are you happy here?" I said at last. He considered this for a moment. "Not particularly," he said. "But you're not very happy where you are, either.

You drive the car, you don't carry it.

According to the study, approximately 16.7 million U.S. workers born in Latin America had a combined gross income of $450 billion last year, of which 93 percent was spent locally.

There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.

When Viv Richards retired I thought it was end of entertainment. But then came Sehwag,the King of entertainment!

Just as the self of the human being is the centerpoint of the plurality of manifestations of his life of soul, so is the ONE God, transcending the self, the centerpoint of the world.