Through art they confuse us and blind us to our enslavement. Art adorns our prison walls, keeps us silent and diverted and indifferent.
Behind every work of art lies the enormous pretension of exhibiting one's vision of the world. If such obvious arrogance is not counterbalanced by the tribulations of doubt, all that remains is a monster who is to art what a fanatic is to faith.
In Buddhism there is one word for mind & heart: chitta. Chitta refers not just to thoughts and emotions in the narrow sense of arising from the brain, but also to the whole range of consciousness, vast & unimpeded.
Men, I thought, were more trouble than they were worth. Really, one should stick to books where one sees the hero coming a mile off.
The secret to making yourself stronger is to absorb the strength of the people around you—energy begets energy.
I’m very headstrong. Once I’ve caught fire, there’s no dousing the flames—all engines full speed ahead.
Protect the ears of your heart, rather than being drawn in each day like the fading tides that dance daily with the moon.
We are often unaware of the gradual decline and the erosion in our lives but not unaware of the gnawing feeling it brings.
The noise distorts the truth but we can break through, we need to base our foundation upon the Rock.
It is a dangerous trap to believe that our search is over because we have gained all the riches we are going to have.
We need to get to the heart of each heart issue—and we can’t do it. Only the Maker can. The world needs #Jesus.
Owen remarked "The basis of science and art is magical - vice versa, magic is art and science. It goes both ways. There's not ever black and white...in magic or in anything to my way of thinking.
Too many people are missing their destiny a year at a time because they're too scared to think in decades!" (p. 127)
Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.
When you translate the Bible with excessive literalism, you demythologize it. The possibility of a convincing reference to the individual's own spiritual experience is lost. (111)
The Garden is a metaphor for the following: our minds, and our thinking in terms of pairs of opposites--man and woman, good and evil--are as holy as that of a god. (50)
He turned the presidency – and the President's House – into something it had not been before: a center of curiosity and inquiry, of vibrant institution that played informal but important roles in the broader life of the nation, from science to li...
The political nature of man made it highly unlikely that a society designed to meet regularly would remain peaceable. "The way to make friends quarrel is to pit them in disputation under the public eye," Jefferson said.
Creativity is a way of living life, no matter what our vocation, or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts...
The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell.
Nothing is as empowering as real-world validation, even if it's for failure.
