Its as if you think you'd never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined
Poetry is the special medium of spiritual crazy wisdom, the form of expression that comes closest to creating a bridge between words and what is wordless.
After a few years of meditation practice we can even learn how to occasionally ignore ourselves. And what relief that can be!
As strange as it sounds, meditation may reveal that we are happier than we thought we were. We may discover that ancient conditioning rather than present circumstances is causing our dissatisfaction , and that this moment is quite sufficient or even wonderful, and we simply hadn't noticed.
I meditate because evolution gave me a big brain, but it didn't come with an instruction manual. I meditate because life is too short and sitting slows it down. I meditate because life is too long and I need an occasional breakI meditate because it's such a relief to spend time ignoring myselfI meditate because I'm building myself a bigger and better perspective, and occasionally I need to add a new window.
Artists are visited by the Muses, or tormented by their own passions and demons.
A belief in reincarnation would at least give us some slack; we would have many lifetimes to get it right.
Cancer is like a cockroach. It just comes back stronger. I'm tearing apart the immune system of the cockroach and seeing how it ticks. I've opened up my own pathology center.
Of course I shall go astray often. . . for who does not make mistakes? But I cannot go far wrong for I have seen the truth.
You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one.
Guys like Bin Laden have been responsible for injuring and maiming and murdering more Muslims than any foreign imperial power has in the last hundred years.