Poetry carries the imagery which is large enough for the kind of life we want for ourselves.

What if the world is holding its breath - waiting for you to take the place that only you can fill?

Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you.

The antidote to exhaustion isn't rest. It's wholeheartedness.

Gratitude arises from paying attention, from being awake in the presence of everything that lives within and without us.

To have a firm persuasion in our work - to feel that what we do is right for ourselves and good for the world at exactly the same time - is one of the great triumphs of human existence.

Sometimes everything has to be inscribed across the heavens so you can find the one line already written inside you.

Our work is to make ourselves visible in the world. This is the soul's individual journey, and the soul would much rather fail at its own life than succeed at someone else's.

Enough. These few words are enough If not these few words, this breath If not this breath, this sitting here This opening to the life we have refused again and again Until now Until now.

I want to know if you know how to melt into that fierce heat of living falling toward the center of your longing.

The courageous conversation is the one you don't want to have.

A man never grows out of wanting and desiring money that follows him through life.

The Best Denial Is The Very Best Confirmation.P. Hermans

I have two or three shows that I follow, and even those are few and far, when I can see them on Netflix. I don't really watch anything on TV. It's not really a priority for me.

Everything wanna be loved. Us sing and dance, and holla just wanting to be loved.

Majoring in religion, listening to TV evangelists interpret the scriptures and dictate my offerings-I found my God inside myself-in every moment and piece of matter. Everything is animate.

Chicks dig me because I rarely wear underwear, and when I do, it's usually something unusual.

Secularism produces a bored soul

Whatever men live for, today most live only because of the market order.

You have to realize that Mel [Gibson], he's a funny guy. He's got a wicked sense of humor.

She loved me coming and going, at my worst and at my best. She had a bottomless well of love for me.