Nothing burns in hell but ego" says Tauler. Does anything live but Buddha Nature, Christ Spirit?
I said I was impressed, Martha. I'm beside myself with jealousy. What do you want me to do, throw up?
The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. . . . They are essential to our comprehension of consciousness and ourselves.
If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
The condition of the theater is always an accurate measure of the cultural health of a nation. A play always exists in the present tense (if it is a valuable one), and its music -- its special noise -- is always contemporary. The most valuable function of the theater as an art form is to tell us who we are, and the health of the theater is determined by how much of that we want to know.
School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians
I think I was probably wondering, having looked at human beings for a long time, wondering if evolution ever took place. And I still have my doubts.
The name of this infinite and inexhaustible depth and ground of all being is God.
The great city can teach something that no university by itself can altogether impart: a vivid sense of the largeness of human brotherhood, a vivid sense of man's increasing obligation to man; a vivid sense of our absolute dependence on one another.
My good now flows to me in a steady, unbroken, ever-increasing stream of success, happiness and abundance.
A country that is governed by its national army can never be morally free and, therefore, its so-called weakest member can never rise to his full moral height.