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.

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.

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.

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

When we share, we open doors to a new beginning.

I can do this, I lied to myself feebly. No one was going to bite me.

Some people need significance more than they need another person. Change will only happen in a relationship when you realize it is not the person, but the "emotion" you desire.

A soul that is happy in the things of God can overcome tremendous obstacles.

It is not always possible to do away with negative thinking, but with persistence and practice, one can gain mastery over them so that they do not take the upper hand.

Morality is totally God’s standard, and his standards and conditions are revealed to us through his written word, the Scriptures (The Bible).

So little done, so much to do.

What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books.

Wine is a successful effort to translate the perishable into the permanent.

Non-co-operators will make a serious mistake if they seek to convert people to their creed by violence.