A lot of the shadow self is the home of poetry, story, prayer. My deepest understandings are often released from the part of me of which I am least aware most of the time.

I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day. . . . The most difficult thing to let go is my self, that self which, coddled and cozened, becomes smaller as it becomes heavier. I don't understand how and why I come to be only as I lose myself, but I know from long experience that this is so.

God understands. And God understands that part of us which is more than we think we are.

All real art is, in its true sense, religious; it is a religious impulse; there is no such thing as a non-religious subject. But much bad or downright sacrilegious art depicts so-called religious subjects.

Great art always transcends its culture, while lesser art merely reflects it.

And there's no getting around the fact that all life lives at the expense of another life.

When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things.