You have understood what all great painters understand: in order to forget the rules, you must know them and respect them.
Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth.
Are you your clothes? Are you your name? Are you your profession? Stop identifying with them. They come and go
Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.
My life is like shattered glass. " said the visitor. "My soul is tainted with evil. Is there any hope for me? "Yes," said the Master. "There is something whereby each broken thing is bound again and every stain made clean. " "What?" "Forgiveness" "Whom do I forgive?" "Everyone: Life, God, your neighbor especially yourself. " "How is that done?" "By understanding that no one is to blame," said the Master. "NO ONE.
Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything.
Wisdom can be learned. But it cannot be taught.
A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble
I'm too obsessed that the people who say critical things about me are right, even though I'm getting to do something I love.
In Western Europe people perish from the congestion and stifling closeness, but with us it is from the spaciousness. . . . The expanses are so great that the little man hasn't the resources to orient himself. . . . This is what I think about Russian suicides.
A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education.