Love is not a doctrine, Peace is not an international agreement. Love and peace are beings who live as possibilities in us.

Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I willing to let my ideas of myself, of man be changed? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? To empty myself even of my concept of emptiness?

Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.

Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.

The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.

Bear ye one another's burdens, the Lord said, and he was talking law.

To have character is to be big enough to take life on.