How I want to see the mountains, rivers, sunshine, and ruined fortresses! Let the wind course over us until we become beautiful

The secret prayer chamber is a bloody battleground. Here violent and decisive battles are fought out. Here the fate of souls for time and eternity is determined, in quietude and solitude.

When we bring deep awareness to whatever's bothering us, the same things might be happening, but we are able to relate to them differently.

An odd phrase, "by heart," he would add, as though poems were stored in the bloodstream.

I can still enjoy the foods I like I just eat much smaller portions now. And of course Ive had to give up that southern style way of cooking.

We are personally responsible for our own state of consciousness. As Soul unfolds toward total freedom, It understands total responsibility must be accepted for every thought and action.

Stay focused. Your start does not determine how you're going to finish.

Libraries serve the information needs of all of the people in the community — not just the loudest, not just the most powerful, not even just the majority. Libraries serve everyone.

Nothing attracts me like a closed door. I cannot let my camera rest until I have pried it open.

You ever laughed so hard nobody in the world could hurt you for a minute, no matter what they tried to do to you?

Even the most eminent persons are subject to the laws of gravity.