Only a fool is not afraid.

The concentration of a small child at play is analogous to the concentration of the artist of any discipline. In real play, which is real concentration, the child is not only outside time, he is outside himself.

prayer is whenever we consciously try to get in contact with the numinous, the ineffable, the marvelous.

Now I am setting out into the unknown. It will take me a long while to work through the grief. There are no shortcuts; it has to be gone through.

A great painting or symphony or play, doesn't diminish us, but enlarges us, and we, too, want to make our own cry of affirmation to the power of Creation behind the Universe.

I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day.

If our love for each other really is participatory, then all other human relationships nourish it; it is inclusive, never exclusive.