You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.

If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.

Without giving up hope—that there’s somewhere better to be, that there’s someone better to be—we will never relax with where we are or who we are.

A further sign of health is that we don't become undone by fear and trembling, but we take it as a message that it's time to stop struggling and look directly at what's threatening us.

While we are sitting in meditation, we are simply exploring humanity and all of creation in the form of ourselves.

Patience is the training in abiding with the restlessness of our energy and letting things evolve at their own speed.

Words themselves are neutral. It's the charge we add to them that matters

Sitting meditation gives us a way to move closer to our thoughts and emotions and to get in touch with our bodies.

We can learn to act and think in ways that sow seeds of our future well-being, gradually becoming more aware of what causes happiness as well as what causes distress.

Abandon hope.

Pointing directly at your own heart, you find Buddha.

THE HARDESTSTEPWE ALL MUST TAKEIS TO BLINDLY TRUST IN WHO WE ARE. - ATTICUS

Back in our apartment, lights out, The Professor emerged from beneath the bed." - from "The Professor Spends the Night, " in issue 4 of Literary Orphans

I see more people all the time feeling something growing from within them to more fully realize their heart's desire, their desire to give more, to be more, to do more.

Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.

Ballyhoo is for your classic girl, who is fun and fearless. This is for the girl who is not afraid to dress fun.

-You're gloating, Max. It's not flattering. Somebody needs to teach you a little humility.- -A good woman could do that.- -She'd have to be armed and dangerous.-

The man is best served who has no occasion to put the hands of others at the end of his own arms.

A thousand years hence, every German will speak with awe of Stalingrad and remember that it was there that Germany put the seal on her victory.

We must cling only to drawing.

The unencumbered stage encourages the truth operative in everyone. The less seen, the more heard. The eye is the enemy of the ear in real drama.