Religion is like music, one must have an ear for it. Some people have none at all.

We are what we are, the spirit afterwards, but first the touch.

People are only 'disappointing' when one makes a wrong diagnosis.

Behind their dark glass, the mad own nothing.

You weresunrise to merise and warm and streaming.' - Praise Song For My Mother by Charlotte Mew

You werewater to medeep and bold and fathoming' - Praise Song For My Mother by Charlotte Mew

You weremoon's eye to mepull and grained and mantling' - Praise Song For My Mother by Charlotte Mew

Now I will burn you back, I will burn you through, Though I am damned for it we two will lieAnd burn, here where the starlings fly

Art fuels the fire inside me.

We cannot consent to be judged by someone who has suffered less than ourselves. And since each of us regards himself as an unrecognized Job...

I strongly believe that you can push beyond the challenges that you are currently faced with. Please try not to disappoint yourself.

who cares about all the problems and barriers, nothing matters but the Spectacular Now.

Your deepest roots are in nature. No matter who you are, where you live, or what kind of life you lead, you remain irrevocably linked with the rest of creation.

How anyone can believe in eternal punishment, or in any soul which God has made being "lost" and also believes in the love, nay, even in the justice of God is a mystery indeed.

We need to pray and read the Bible every day, and regardless of whatever else happens to you, that tends to keep you close to Him, because you are constantly in touch through His Word.

Say what you want about America - thirteen bucks can still get you a hell of a lot of mice!

Our efforts to disconnect ourselves from our own suffering end up disconnecting our suffering from God's suffering for us. The way out of our loss and hurt is in and through.

Time sets all things right. Error lives but a day. Truth is eternal.