The visual image is a kind of tripwire for the emotions.

I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace.

the biggest threat to the religious experience may well come from organized religion itself.

habit, a particularly insidious thug who chokes passion and smothers love. Habit puts us on autopilot.

The brain is only three pounds of blood, dream, and electricity, and yet from that mortal stew come Beethoven's sonatas. Dizzie Gillespie's jazz. Audrey Hepburn's wish to spend the last month of her life in Somalia, saving children.

Fear is danger to your body, but disgust is danger to your soul.

Love is like a batik created from many emotional colors, it is a fabric whose pattern and brightness may vary.