One thing I've learned to appreciate as I've gotten a little older is direct forms of communication.
The ending is nearer than you think, and it is already written. All that we have left to choose is the correct moment to begin.
I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.
There is an inverse relationship between imagination and money.
I think that the Occupy movement is, in one sense, the public saying that they should be the ones to decide who's too big to fail.
There is some confusion as to what magic actually is. I think this can be cleared up if you just look at the very earliest descriptions of magic. Magic in its earliest form is often referred to as “the art”. I believe this is completely literal. I believe that magic is art and that art, whether it be writing, music, sculpture, or any other form is literally magic.
Love your rage, not your cage.
Friends that you have known for a long time and love very dearly never seem to grow old.
It is in Zen practice that you gain power, balance and wisdom. The battles that you fight are within your own mind. That is where the real victories and defeats are.
Christmas is a kindling of new fires.
We're facing a crisis that we have not provoked, yet we are the main victims of the greatest crisis since the 1930s. It's not been generated by factors external to the system, but by factors that are of the very essence of the system: exacerbated individualism, deregulation, competition, and so on.