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Strange how the deepest part of us isn't able to speak more clearly to the part of us that lives only here in the shallows of the world.

In eighty-six years, child, I've learned the world is a far more mysterious place than most people realize and that every moment of life is woven through with meaning.

Darkness doesn't fall at a predictable schedule. Darkness can overwhelm you any time of the day, as you know well.

Evil travels the world in anonymity, its presence revealed only by the periodic consequences of its desires...

But the line between moral behavior and narcissistic self-righteousness is thin and difficult to discern

Every journey has a destination, known or unknown.

If patterns exist in our seemingly patternless lives — and they do — then the law of harmony insists that the most harmonious of all patterns, circles within circles, will most often assert itself.

The greatest danger, of course, was to believe that I was equal to them, because assurance can morph into arrogance that Death loves to prove unfounded.

To get through life successfully, body and soul must translate each other correctly more often than not.

Duty is a good thing, a calling without which no civilization can survive, but it is also a weight and chain that sometimes seems sure to sink you to the airless bottom of a dark pool

Nothing is so fundamental to the spiritual life as learning to give thanks.

It's great that with the Internet, there has come this sense of creative independence.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

I've never formally trained for pain management, but I have a good understanding of how to conquer it. I just analyze the pain, feel it in the moment, and then mentally become numb to it.

When you do not consciously relate to your body, your mind does not relate consciously to you.

You saved Dad's life. If anyone's got the right to eavesdrop on him, it's you.

Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

I serve like a bridge. I go to other cultures, learn, put myself in different situations and learn as much as I can, and then go to Western cultures to give. I'm doing this bridging all the time.

I'm truly an outsider in the poetry world. When I started writing, I was trying to move my poems away from modernist lines.

I'm going back to the old Shaq. I was normal last year - I was an earthling last summer. I had to go back to my alien roots.