FRANK SINATRA: LOUIS ARMSTRONG makes me feel humble in his presence. He became a legend in his lifetime because he had the skill of a true artist, the strength of a demon and the heart of a lion. I have known him in moments of glory and adversity.
IF POETRY AND THE ARTS DO ANYTHING, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.
IN POETRY everything can be faked but intensity of utterance.
I’VE ALWAYS ASSOCIATED the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward. SEAMUS HEANEY
ALL SERIOUS DARING STARTS FROM WITHIN.
BEWARE OF A MAN WITH MANNERS.
EUDORA WELTY
THE SUPREME QUESTION ABOUT A WORK OF ART is out of how deep a life does it spring. JAMES JOYCE
WE TEND TO FORGET that our real gift is not so much what we can do, but who we are. HENRI NOUWEN
YOU SHOULD TREAT ALL THINGS AS SPIRIT, realize that we are one family. It’s never something like the end. It’s like life — there is no end to life.
FLOYD RED CROW WEATERMAN
IN THE HEART we begin to move from individuality to universality. Through the heart we enter unimaginable to the mind spaces. Through the heart we see reality clearly as it is without distortions. The heart is a portal into the incomprehensible. SHAMBHU HEART
IN the depths of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. ALBERT CAMUS
THE test of literature is, I suppose,
whether we ourselves live more
intensely for the reading of it. ELIZEBETH DREW
ARTIST IS LUCKY when presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point he’s in business. JOHN BERRYMAN
HUMAN BEINGS are on a hair’s breadth away from catastrophe at all times — both personally and on a larger historical level. WILLIAM STYRON
THE ‘second coming’ of Christ is a transformation of human consciousness, a shift from time to presence, from thinking to pure consciousness, not the arrival of some man or woman. ECKHART TOLLE
THE ONLY INTELLIGENT PRACTICAL RESPONSE TO LIFE’S HORROR IS TO LAUGH DEFIANTLY AT IT. SOREN KIERKEGAARD
CORRIE TEN BOOM 1892-1983 “Tramp for the Lord”. “The Hiding Place”
NEVER BE AFRAID to trust an unknown future to a known God.
FORGIVENESS IS SETTING THE PRISONER FREE — ONLY TO FIND OUT THAT THE PRISONER WAS ME.
FAITH sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable & receives the impossible.
THORNTON WILDER 1897-1975 “OUR TOWN””TTHE SKIN OF OUR TEETH”
LOVE IS AN ENERGY WHICH EXISTS OF ITSELF. IT IS ITS OWN VALUE.
WE can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
SEEK THE LOFTY by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
I AM CONVINCED THAT, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.
THERE IS NO HAPPINESS SAVE IN UNDERSTANDING THE WHOLE.
EVERY GOOD THING IN THE WORLD STANDS ON THE RAZOR-EDGE OF DANGER.
THERE IS A LAND OF THE LIVING & A LAND OF THE DEAD & the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
SRI NISARGDATTA MAHARAJ 1897-1981–“Sets of Consciousness””I Am That”
TO KNOW THAT YOU ARE A PRISONER OF YOUR MIND IS THE DAWN OF WISDOM.
ONCE YOU REALIZE that the world is your own projection, you are free of it. You need not free yourself of a world that does not exist, except in your own imagination! However is the picture, beautiful or ugly, you are painting it & you are not bound by it. Realize that there is no one to force it on you, that is due to the habit of taking the imaginary to be real. See the imaginary as imaginary & be free of fear.
WE MISS THE REAL by lack of attention & create the unreal by excess of imagination.
YOU ARE NOT IN THIS WORLD. THIS WORLD IS INSIDE YOU.
ALL THAT MATTERS IS MINDFULNESS, TOTAL AWARENESS OF ONESELF, OR RATHER, OF ONE’S MIND.