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Seeking Why run around sprinkling holy water? There's an ocean inside you, and when you're ready you'll drink.
The Lord is in me, the Lord is in you,as life is in every seed, put false pride away and seek the Lord within.
Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.
One should have wit, but not wish to have it; otherwise there will be witticism, the Alexandrian style of wit.
It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to combine both.
I do not play the instrument In longing but in quest Not to be undertaken Not to be lost In a forest of bliss.
Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
It has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I have been.
If you become a Nun, dear, The bishop Love will be; The Cupids every one, dear! Will chant-'We trust in thee!'
The trees are God's great alphabet: With them He writes in shining green Across the world His thoughts serene.
Yet, when the city sleeps; When all the cries are still: The stars and heavenly deeps Work out a perfect will.
It was a pity that people did not risk enough to speak out in behalf of one another's happiness and their own.
Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
The world was more than a place. Life was more than an event. It was all one thing, and that thing was: story.
The French-Cajun culture is similar to mine - they're Catholic, they play accordions, and they eat hot chiles.
Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.
The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.
Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.
Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.
and each of his voices left his body in a different colored soul and floated up towards the sun still singing.
His father was self-made, but his mother was constructed by others, and such edifices are notoriously fragile.
There is something reassuring about the toilets. Bodily functions at least remain democratic. Everybody shits.
So that’s what art is, for the artist,” said Crake. “An empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at getting laid.
Too much self-regard has never struck me as dignified: trying to twist over my shoulder to view my own behind.
My desk, most loyal friend thank you. You've been with me on every road I've taken. My scar and my protection.
The greatest thing we can do to be closer to our own lives and to the freshness of living is to open up again.
Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?
It is not, believe me, the act of a wise man to say, "I will live." To-morrow's life is too late; live to-day.
Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.
I was very careful never to take an interesting job. If you have an interesting job, you get interested in it.
Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness ; that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience .
I feel often very close to the ecstasy and anguish which lie at the very heart of poetry - I am writing a lot.
No one is depressed when they're asleep, which is why being in bed is such a safe place if you're really down.
Accustomed long to contemplating love and compassion I have forgotten all difference between myself and others
I'm writing mostly to thank you for living you eighty years and to tell you I love you and think of you often.
Thus hand in hand through life we 'll go; Its checker'd paths of joy and woe With cautious steps we 'll tread.
Of all the heavenly gifts that mortal men commend, What trusty treasure in the world can counterfail a friend?
When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous.
Miranda in Miranda's sight is old, gray and dirty; Twenty-nine she was last night; This morning she is thirty.
One would be in less danger From the wiles of the stranger If one's own kin and kith Were more fun to be with.
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
A mind conscious of right laughs at the falsehoods of rumour. [Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit.]
Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
I could not possibly count the gold-digging ruses of women, Not if I had ten mouths, not if I had ten tongues.
It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better way.
Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially.
rush of pine scent (once upon a time), the unlicensed conviction there ought to be another way of saying this.
Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.
To judge a man's character by only one of its manifestations is like judging the sea by a jugful of its water.