Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.

It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.

All the old bindings are broken. Cosmological centers now are anywhere and everywhere. The earth is a heavenly body, most beautiful of all, and all poetry is now archaic that fails to match the wonder of this view.

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. Fear of the unknown is our greatest fear. Many of us would enter a tiger's lair before we would enter a dark cave. While caution is a useful instinct, we lose many opportunities and much of the adventure of life if we fail to support the curious explorer within us.

The influence of a vital being vitalizes.

Instead of clearing his own heart the zealot tries to clear the world.