The psychologists are valiantly trying to provide us with answers, the religious people are trying to provide us with answers. I think it properly falls on the cultural workers to investigate this predicament with a little less concern for the marketplace and a little more concern for their higher calling.
Leonard CohenChildren show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
Leonard CohenTo keep our hearts open is probably the most urgent responsibility you have as you get older.
Leonard CohenMaybe there's a god above but the only thing I learned from love was how to shoot at somebody who outdrew you.
Leonard CohenYou can do anything you want to [ in ashram] if you can find the time. It's a very rigorous day. It starts at 2:30 in the morning and often doesn't end until midnight, so if you can actually find a moment to have a drink or a smoke, you're quite welcome to, as long as it doesn't interfere with your capacity to follow the schedule.
Leonard Cohen