Step off assuredly into the blank of your mind. Something will come to you.

Outside the open window The morning air is all awash with angels.

What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.

All that we do is touched with ocean, and yet we remain on the shore of what we know

Teach me, like you, to drink creation whole/ And casting out myself, become a soul.

The eye is pleased when nature stoops to art.

There is a poignancy in all things clear, In the stare of the deer, in the ring of a hammer in the morning. Seeing a bucket of perfectly lucid water We fall to imagining prodigious honesties.

The strength of the genie comes from being in a bottle.

Whatever pains disease may bring Are but the tangy seasoning To Loves delicious fare.

Writing is?waiting for the word that may not be there until next Tuesday.

Oh, let there be nothing on earth but laundry, Nothing but rosy hands in the rising steam And clear dances done in the sight of heaven.

From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its story.

They're simply seeking an interlude from emotional pain and searing mental agony, a sleep from which they'll awaken to discover they're the person they always wanted to be.

You are shaped by Your thinking. The outcome of your life cannot be better than your pattern of thought

Although there are real hazards in saying yes to life, they are inconsequential when compared to the regrets that come with saying "no".

Devotion is when your involvement with life is so absolute that you yourself do not matter anymore.

I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.

We know God easily, if we do not constrain ourselves to define him.

People think photography is about photographing. To me, it’s about relationships.

Nobody has ever accused Donald Trump of lowering the temperature on anything - I don't think.

Playing keys is more than just knowing what notes to play. You have to know about the buttons too.