When we create an environment where our spirit is in sync with the Divine Spirit, then we should be on the lookout for good, positive, helpful thoughts and ideas from a source beyond ourselves. p23.

It was as if God had become not only the object of my praise and thanksgiving but my creative partner as well.

Learn to listen to subtle cues from your spirit instead of the barrage coming from your brain.

Meditation is a spiritual human activity like mourning, fasting, or praying, and is not limited to one religious group while remaining unavailable to others. (103)

The challenge is to draw on the past but not be bound by it" p. 20

Praise is the portal to the presence of God.

Understanding comes hard to persons of high rank who are accustomed to phony lifestyles that involve no daily work.

Meditation gives clear understanding about body and brain interface with consciousness

I was afraid of the dance once, too. But I learned to embrace it and the mistakes I would make. Do not turn away from your fear. Turn toward love instead.

I guess the thing that I'm most proud of is that I kept on writing poetry. I understand that poetry is sort of the source of everything I do. It's the source of my creativity.

How could the adventure seeker of today find satisfaction with the level of performance that was a standard set more than 40 years ago ?

Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.

I spend so much time on the Internet...I feel like I'm a million pages into the worst book ever, and I'm never going to stop reading.

Without deviance from normality, there can be no progress.

A stranger would think that the people of the United States had no other occupation than electioneering.

The moral to be legitimately drawn from the supreme tragedy of the bomb is that it will not be destroyed by counter bombs even as violence cannot be by counter-violence.