The day had gone by just as days go by. I had killed it in accordance with my primitive and retiring way of life.

Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God's name is Abraxas.

I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.

Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.

I dance through life, living my bliss, steeped in joy.

God believes in you. So why don't you?

Inhumanity is part of humanity as much as suffering is a part of stories. Cruelty is written in the human script.

I no longer really ever like to be pitched. Instead, I prefer to engage in a relationship as part of learning the other person.

Poetry will absorb and transmute, as it always has done, and glorify, all that we can know.

A lot of women say that they want to get to feeling about themselves the way I feel, because when I'm on a roll, I'm hot, I'm really good. I try to tell them, I don't have a fix.

Yoga is the stilling of the fluctuations of the mind.

I love you much less than my God, but much more than myself.

Mama gives you money for Sunday school, you trade yours for candy after church is through.