Saturated Arrogance ...imprisoned muses cried to be free she took away their quills and said do not bother me...
Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'It is in me, and shall out.' Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammering, hissed and hooted, stand and strive, until at last rage draw out of thee that dream-power which every night shows thee is thine...
It is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem,—a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing. The thought and the form are equa...
A child who passes through many hands in turn, can never be well brought up. At every change he makes a secret comparison, which continually tends to lessen his respect for those who control him, and with it their authority over him. If once he think...
As with many people, Charles, who could not talk, wrote with fullness. He set down his loneliness and his perplexities, and he put on paper many things he did not know about himself.
The Buddha’s dharma didn’t teach peace and relaxation; it taught awakening—often rude awakening.
Master, don’t. Please.” “Please is a great word–and I intend to please. Me, for sure. Maybe even you.” Lindsey and deVries
We are immensed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
Do You Believe ...on this road of life on this day I take you now husband and wife...
The practice of that which is ethically best—what we call goodness or virtue—involves a course of conduct which, in all respects, is opposed to that which leads to success in the cosmic struggle for existence. In place of ruthless self-assertion ...
Don't you dare take the lazy way. It's too easy to excuse yourself because of your ancestry. Don't let me catch you doing it! Now -- look close at me so you will remember. Whatever you do, it will be you who do.
Well, a man's mind can't stay in time the way his body does.
Irony is easier than hopeless silence but braver than flight.
There’s no path to liberation that doesn’t pass through the shadow.
At the last stages of the journey, there’s no journey at all.
Sometimes, sitting there on the cushion failing to watch your breath, it can feel like you’re the only weirdo weird enough to be wasting your time in this way. But you’re not! There are generations of weirdos, monasteries full of them, and we hav...
It is possible to refine awareness itself so much that the emptiness of things, and the role mental construction plays, becomes a directly apprehended reality.
We all know how 'modern democracies take loaves from the wealthy.' It's the slipups in the 'pass them out to the poor' department that inspire a study of Economics.
Soul Sister Evoking all my inner goodness with bastions of time I cradle your heart sisterly into mine...
Calico Kitty My calico kitty was painted and primed she could prowl the night away ~ without spending a dime...
Depths of Friendship ...under fathoms deep of dark and bitter cold an eerie oscillation reverberated brash and bold...
