After a few years of meditation practice we can even learn how to occasionally ignore ourselves. And what relief that can be!

Artists are visited by the Muses, or tormented by their own passions and demons.

A belief in reincarnation would at least give us some slack; we would have many lifetimes to get it right.

Empires rise and fall like the abdomen of God. It's just the universe breathing.

Poetry is the special medium of spiritual crazy wisdom, the form of expression that comes closest to creating a bridge between words and what is wordless.

Artists speak to a different part of us, bypassing the cloudy filter of reason and the fears and prejudices of the habitual mind.

If you don't like the news go out and make some of your own.

By translating their inner turmoil or understanding into art, artists challenge the accepted notions of reality and create new ones.

Forgiveness is not simply a single act, it is a full process.

There are many madnesses in every culture! All cultures need reason!

Blue. My God! I'm so blue that if I were a dog, I'd sit on my haunches and howl and howl and howl...

God will judge us by our own thoughts and deeds, not by what others say about us.

The world is touched by sacrifice. It does not then discriminate about the merits of a cause. No so God - He is all seeing. He insists on the purity of the cause and on adequate sacrifice thereof.

In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.

Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.

Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.

Things don’t get better just because you want them to.