The earth has disappeared beneath my feet, It fled from all my ecstasy. Now like a singing air creature I feel the rose keep opening.

Your love Should never be offered to the mouth of a Stranger, Only to someone Who has the valor and daring To cut pieces of their soul off with a knife Then weave them into a blanket To protect you.

Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.

I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, 'love lifts me.'

I wish I could show you...the astonishing light of your own being.

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.

I am in love with every church And mosque And temple And any kind of shrine Because I know it is there That people say the different names Of the One God.

Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.

Be kind to your sleeping heart. Take it out into the vast fields of light...And let it breathe.

This place where you are right now, God circled on a map for you.

You yourself are your own obstacle, rise above yourself.

the nature need the evil for existence

Wounds sustained for the sake of conscience carry their own balsam with the blow.

If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.

Everything has changed except the way man thinks (when the hydrogen bomb was exploded)

True will-power and courage are not on the battlefield, but in everyday conquests over our intertia, laziness, boredom.

Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

Remind your self. Nobody constructed like you, you style your self.

Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn't.

If you learn indoor techniques, you will think narrowly and forget the true Way. Thus you will have difficulty in actual encounters.

I had done this. I had pulled my life apart. I would never, ever be safe again.