We therefore need to know the gifts given us by God, so that we may use them, for by these we shall be saved.

It is easier to renounce worldly possessions than it is to renounce the love of them

When you attack the roots of sin, fix your thought more on the God you desire than on the sin you abhor.

I desire the love of God not because I am worthy, but because I am unworthy.

Prayer is naught but a rising desire of the heart into God by withdrawing of the heart from all earthly thoughts.

Regard yourself all the more as a sinner because you cannot feel yourself to be what you are.

What is humility but truthfulness? There is no real difference.

One who loves God retains this humility at all times, not with weariness and struggle, but with pleasure and gladness.

I think the rest of the world is not as cold and lonely a place as you think. At least I have to hope.

dont fall for things that u desire because mostly that fall always break

No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore am no beast.

Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.

Surfing is simply the most fun I know how to have on this planet.

The songs themselves do broaden out as time passes and take on subtly different meanings, take on more meaning, I find.

A continuing conversation with other persons, with cultural products, and with oneself, is a large part of what it means to be a human being, in our time and perhaps in all time.

I went to New York in 1974, to either try to get a record deal, get into the New York Art Student League, or be a dancer. So that was my plan. Some plan. And I had no money.

You have been hiding so long aimlessly drifting in the sea of my love Even so You have always been connected to me Connected, revealed in the known in the unmanifest I am life itself

The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind.