Capel said, "Remember that you're a woman. " All too often I forgot that.
I bought the sweetness with this pain.
There is nothing so entirely desirable in all the world as a few hours oblivion.
I do not wish to grow old, to outlive my illusions. Only a short respite from cares and sorrow, a brief time of flowers, and music, and love, and laughter, and ecstatic tears.
Love's the little leaven that works the whole world glad.
Words? I tell you not to write me letters; I command you. Is it not enough to want you so in vain, but you send me what evokes you here before me -- this paper, all along whose lines your hand has lain?
All's well with thee if thou art in just hands.
Curiosity is essential for progress. Only when we look to worlds beyond our own can we really know if there's room for improvement.
Through lovingly embracing the full range of our experience- human and divine- we can heal the split that existed between the spirit and the form, in ourselves individually and in the whole world.
Fear is a natural reaction of moving closer to the truth. If we commit ourselves to staying right where we are, then our experience becomes very vivid. Things become very clear when there is nowhere to escape.
If there have been those who doubted whether a confederated representative democracy were a government competent to the wise and orderly management of the common concerns of a mighty nation, those doubts have been dispelled.