For the things that are seen are temporal, but things that are unseen are eternal.

And joy is always a promise.

We turn to stories and pictures and music because they show us who and what and why we are.

I rebel against death, yet I know that it is how I respond to death's inevitability that is going to make me less or more fully alive.

Holiness ... is nothing we can *do* ... It is gift, sheer gift, waiting there to be recognized and received. We do not have to be qualified to be holy. We do not have to be qualified to be whole, or healed.Made

If we all knew each morning that there was going to be another morning, and on and on and on, we's tend not to notice the sunrise, or hear the birds, or the waves rolling into the shore. We'd tend not to treasure our time with the people we love. Simply the awareness that our mortal lives had a beginning and will have an end enhances the quality of our living. Perhaps it's even more intense when we know that the termination of the body is near, but it shouldn't be.

All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs.