Once beyond the self, however, holiness is no longer possible, because now, there is nothing left to give and no-one left to do the giving.

Spiritual life is like a moving sidewalk. Whether you go with it or spend your whole life running against it, you're still going to be taken along.

When there is no longer a cyclone, there is no longer an eye. So the storms, crises and sufferings of life are a way of finding the eye.

The truest communication with God is absolute, total silence; there is not a single word in existence that can convey this communication.

This search for perfection - which is a search for divinity - is nothing more than the failure to accept our existence the way it is.

In some ways, all our experiences of God are beyond belief, because all conceptual beliefs pale when compared to the experiential reality.

To be forgiven is not enough; we must put an end to the very need to be forgiven.

Spiritual life is like a moving sidewalk. Whether you go with it or spend your whole life running against it you're still going to be taken along.

I love new clothes. If everyone could just wear new clothes everyday, I reckon depression wouldn’t exist anymore.

As much as he liked the idea of having best friends with whom he could share anything. it was like all he knew how to be was alone, apart.

Some people eat the tuna, some people roll it up into a ball. Also, the sort of disgusting texture and smell, I think, adds something to the experience.

Sometimes the songs you think will be best don't turn out to be best.

A poet's job is to find a name for everything: to be a fearless finder of the names of things.

Never slouch as doing so compresses the lungs, overcrowds other vital organs, rounds the back, and throws you off balance.

work is elevated by our daily environment into something that is appropriately done everywhere and at every conceivable moment.

I always carry a pair of scissors around with me to cut things out of magazines.

Your greatest failure will precede your greatest success.

As a rule, it was the pleasure-haters who became unjust.