I DON’T TALK ABOUT CONSCIOUSNESS. I TALK ABOUT INTERIORITY.
KEN WILBER
I TRY TO PICTURE MY BOOKS BEING ACTED OUT.
Picture books are the distillation of an idea and you have to use just the right words. Love that and I try to use a lot of action verbs.
VERY SELDOM DO I USE WHITE IN MY BOOKS. DENISE FLEMING
AND THE SUN HAD ON A CROWN
WROUGHT OF GILDED THISTLEDOWN,
AND A SCARF OF VELVET VAPOR
AND A RAVELED RAINBOW GOWN;
AND HIS TINSEL-TANGLED HAIR
TOSSED AND LOST UPON THE AIR
WAS GLOSSIER AND FLOSSIER
THAN ANY ANYWHERE. JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY
THE ABILITY TO OBSERVE without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
J. KRISNAMURTI
THOSE WHO CANNOT CHANGE THEIR MINDS CANNOT CHANGE ANYTHING.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
HAVING A SPIRITUAL DIMENSION IN OUR LIVES DOES NOT MEAN ESCAPING LIFE OR DWELLING IN A PLACE OF BLISS OUTSIDE THIS WORLD BUT DISCOVERING WAYS TO HANDLE LIFE’S DIFFICULTIES AND GENERATE PEACE, JOY AND HAPPINESS RIGHT WHERE WE ARE ON THIS BEAUTIFUL PLANET. THICH NHAT HANH
MISTAKES ARE THE PORTALS OF DISCOVERY. JAMES JOYCE
WE ARE ALWAYS THE SAME AGE INSIDE. GERTRUDE STEIN
FEAR-BASED LEADERSHIP may command outward compliance but it can never inspire the loyalty and dedication that genuine leadership can. LAO TZU
NORMAN MAILER 1923-2007 “THE NAKED AND THE DEAD”
PART OF LIVING, part of becoming a wise man or a wise woman is to get to that point where you can have a friend for whom you are genuinely happy when he or she has a success. That’s tough. Very few people get to that point. With writers it’s next to impossible. You can’t really bless a writer who’s as good as yourself.
REACHING CONSENSUS in a group is often confused with finding the right answer.
IT’S NOT the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.
WE LOVE THOSE who can lead us to a place we will never reach without them.
LOVE asks us that we be a little braver than is comfortable, a little more generous, a little more flexible. It means living on the edge more than we care to.
THE FUNCTION OF SOCIALISM IS TO RAISE SUFFERING TO A HIGHER LEVEL.
YOU DON’T KNOW A WOMAN UNTIL YOU’VE MEET HER IN COURT.
WE ARE ALWAYS THE SAME AGE INSIDE. GERTRUDE STEIN
HOPE IS AN ANCHOR FOR THE SOUL.
I never made any of my discoveries through the process of rational discovery.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
YOU NEED POWER only when you want to do something harmful; otherwise love is enough to get everything done. CHARLIE CHAPLIN
THOMAS MERTON 1915-1968 “THE SEVEN STORY MOUNTAIN”.
IN A WORLD OF NOICE, confusion and conflict it is necessary that there be places of silence, inner discipline and peace. In such places love can blossom.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS 1914-1997 “NAKED LUNCH”
THERE IS NOTHING MORE PROVOCATIVE THAN MINDING YOUR OWN BUSINESS.
YOU WERE GIVEN THE POWER TO LOVE in order to use it, no matter what pain it may cause you.
WE MUST ALL FACE THE FACT that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
WHAT DOES THE MONEY MACHINE EAT? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, & above all it eats creativity. It eats quality & shits quantity.
YOUR MIND will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
LIFE IS A VACATION FROM TWO ETERNITIES, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
OPEN YOUR MIND AND LET THE PICTURES OUT.
YOU MUST LEARN to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
NOTHING HAPPENS BY COINCIDENCE.
EVERY MAN has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
THE SIMPLEST QUESTIONS ARE THE MOST DIFFICULT.
I THINK ANYBODY INCAPABLE OF CHANGING HIS MIND IS CRAZY.
NO ONE IS EVER REALLY ALONE. YOU ARE PART OF EVERYTHING ALIVE.