Great faith must have great trials.
This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
If we are unduly absorbed in improving our lives we may forget altogether to live them.
. . . preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).
To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it.
Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.
There is no such thing as low maintenance or high maintenance, just a bunch of women hoping for a capable mechanic.
Politicians are the close relatives of the Devil.
History is an orphan. It can speak, but cannot hear. It can give, but cannot take. Its wounds and tragedies can be read and known, but cannot be avoided or cured.
Strangely enough we strengthen love in ourselves when we raise into consciousness the shadow side of our lives. Conversely, when we keep negative feelings out of sight, they smother the love that seems to lie deeper and closer to the real self. This is probably why there is so much pain in not loving. The life that is not able to express the love which is so integral to it grows deformed.