The ocean can be yours; why should you stop Beguiled by dreams of evanescent dew? The secrets of the sun are yours, but you Content yourself with motes trapped in beams.

If the eye of the heart is open, in each atom there will be one hundred secrets

Let love lead your soul. Make it a place to retire to, a kind of monastery cave, a retreat for the deepest core of your being.

The Sea Will be the Sea Whatever the drop's philosophy.

The fruit of love's great tree is poverty; Whoever knows this knows humility.

When first you enter Wisdom's sea, beware-A wave of indecision floods you there.

A man whose eyes love opens risks his soul - His dancing breaks beyond the mind's control.

Were you indeed not blinded by the Curse Of Self-exile, that still grows worse and worse, Yourselves would know that, though you see him not, He is with you this Moment, on this Spot.

I will lament your departure. I will hide my shame for having erred on some obscure point, for thinking that the justice of war is the same of peacetime.

Irony takes nothing away from pathos.

In fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces importunate scoundrels or successful butchers of the human race.

You may not yet be able to bring your unconscious mind activity into awareness as thoughts, but it will always be reflected in the body as an emotion, and of this you can become aware.

I've been an important star and lived a full life, yet I only hve three close friends. I guess that's all anyone can expect.

In nothingness, there is everything, energy. The ending is a beginning.

I have been a lifelong community activist and frankly did not dream of being in public office.

Music can shoot through the musician like lightening through the sky if that music is unobstructed by thoughts.

I don't bask in the awards I've won, read my bank statements, I refuse. To me, that's how you start losing the hunger.

You know, we lose more homes every year to flooding than we do any other event in America.