Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted.
Some people read to confirm their own hopelessness. Others read to be rescued from it.
My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.
I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
That is my essential reason for writing, not for fame, not to be celebrated after death, but to heighten and create life all around me. I also write because when I am writing I reach the high moment of fusion sought by the mystics, the poets, the lovers, a sense of communion with the universe.
Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz.
The efforts of the majority to destroy every trace of heretical 'blasphemy' proved so successful that, until the discoveries at Nag Hammadi, nearly all our information concerning alternative forms of early Christianity came from the massive orthodox attacks upon them.
When you have an inspired thought, you must trust it and act on it.
I'm always diplomatic when heavily outnumbered by armed strangers.