Once in a while i am struckall over again... by just how blue the sky appears .. on wind-played autumn mornings, blue enoughto bruise a heart.

The splendid thingabout falling apartsilently...is thatyou can start overas many timesas you like.

even in the loneliest momentsi have been therefor myself.

some winterswill never meltsome summerswill never freezeand some things will only... live in poems.

...so i will greet youin a wayall loved thingsare meant to be greetedwith a tear in my heartand a poem in my eye.

i have laughedmore than daffodilsand cried more than June.

your handtouching mine.this is howgalaxiescollide.

To fall in love with someone's thoughts - the most intimate, splendid romance.

the intensityin your eyesburns my penas i write.

lean in to kiss mein all the placeswhere the acheis the most special.

i writebecauseit is the only wayi can reach you.

Her beauty was ethereal, knocking on the door of the part of his psyche that still believed in magic and miracles.

God wants the church to become the initiator of the reformation and changes in the society

Sin is really an extreme form of amnesia. It is forgetting who you were when you were created as a spirit which came forth from the heart of God—a spirit made in His perfect, sinless image.

Feeling sorry for yourself is a universal solvent of salvation.

One of the chief values reading history, this is the author, is its capacity to "provoke renegade thoughts".

Treachery has existed as long as there's been warfare, and there's always been a few people that you couldn't trust.

JOSS-STICKS- Small sticks burned by the Chinese in their pagan tomfoolery, in imitation of certain sacred rites of our holy religion.

The waiting itself is beneficial to us: it tries faith, exercises patience, trains submission, and endears the blessing when it comes.

I want nevertheless to add that for me the world is a defiance of common sense.

I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.