If you are going to a destination where the food might be more exotic than usual, always err on the side of caution.
Only of one thing I am sure: when I dream I am always ageless.
The sunset caught me, turned the brush to copper, set the clouds to one great roof of flame above the earth.
Outwardly I am 83, but inwardly I am every age, with the emotions and experience of each period.
Today I walked on the lion-coloured hills with only cypresses for company, until the sunset caught me, turned the brush to copper set the clouds to one great roof of flame above the earth, so that I walk through fire, beneath fire, and all in beauty. Being alone I could not be alone, but felt (closer than flesh) the presence of those who once had burned in such transfigurations. My happiness ran through the centuries in one continual brightness. Looking down, I saw the earth beneath me like a rose petaled with mountains, fragrant with deep peace.
I saw the lovely arch Of rainbow span the sky, The gold sun burning As the rain swept by.
I say that almost everywhere there is beauty enough to fill a person's life if one would only be sensitive to it. but Henry says No: that broken beauty is only a torment, that one must have a whole beauty with man living in relation to it to have a rich civilization and art. . . . Is it because I am a woman that I accept what crumbs I may have, accept the hot-dog stands and amusement parks if I must, if the blue is bright beyond them and the sunset flushes the breasts of sea birds?
People simply feel better about themselves when they’re good at something.
If a symbolic language dies, it tortures us like a nightmare, like a thousand piece orchestra grating on our nerves and tearing our mind to pieces. . . It is a corpse with no symbolic power or strength.
Always recognize the dreamlike qualities of life and reduce attachment and aversion. Practice good-heartedness toward all beings. Be loving and compassionate, no matter what others do to you. What they will do will not matter so much when you see it as a dream. The trick is to have positive intention during the dream. This is the essential point. This is true spirituality.
Presbyterianism without infant damnation would be like the dog on the train that couldn't be identified because it had lost its tag.