“Intuition is not a spiritual force,
and it often leads to nothing more
than a close encounter with the ego
and its insatiable needs.”

-- Caroline Myss

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"When they were enterit in the Dance,
They were full strange of countenance,
Like torches burning red."

-- William Dunbar (1460-1520?)

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“Life is a spell so exquisite that everything
conspires to break it”

-- Emily Dickinson

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"... in order to discover things, one must be ignorant.
It is better to know nothing than to have certain fixed
ideas in one's mind, which are based on theories which
one constantly tries to confirm."

-- Claude Bernard

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“And even in our sleep
pain that cannot forget,
falls drop by drop upon the heart,
and in our own despite,
against our will,
comes wisdom to us
by the awful grace of God."

-- AESCHYLUS - Agamemnon
(1930 translation by Edith Hamilton)

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"... so here are the questions. Is time long, or is it wide?
And the answers, sometimes the answers just come in the mail.
And one day you get that letter, you've been waiting for forever.
And everything it says is true, and then in the last line, it says ...
... burn this."

-- Laurie Anderson

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“We don’t see things as they are,
we see things as we are.”

-- Anaïs Nin

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“It ain’t so much the things we don’t know that get us into trouble.
It’s the things we do know that just ain’t so.”

– Josh Billings, aka Henry Wheeler Shaw

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"He who fights monsters should look into it
that he himself does not become a monster.
When you gaze long into the abyss,
the abyss also gazes into you."

-- Nietzsche

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“So much has been destroyed that I have cast my lot
with those who, age after age, perversely,
with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.”

-- Adrienne Rich

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"There's no poetry when there's poison in the wind..."

-- Jonatha Brooke

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And wit was his vain, frivolous pretense
Of pleasing others at his own expense.
For wits are treated just like common whores:
First they're enjoyed, and then kicked out of doors.
The pleasure past, a threatening doubt remains
That frights th' enjoyer with succeeding pains.
Women and men of wit are dangerous tools,
And ever fatal to admiring fools:
Pleasure allures, and when the fops escape,
'Tis not that they're beloved, but fortunate,
And therefore what they fear, at heart they hate.

- A Satyr against Reason and Mankind
By John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

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"We make assumptions and believe we are right,
then we defend our assumptions and try to make others wrong.
All the sadness and drama you have lived in your life
was rooted in making assumptions and taking things personally.
The whole world of control between humans is based on that."

-- Don Miguel Ruiz

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"The basic difference between an ordinary person and a warrior
is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary
person takes everything either as a blessing or a curse."

-- Carlos Castaneda

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"A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person
lives in a hostile world: Everyone you meet is your mirror."

-- Ken Keyes, Jr.

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"Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure."

-- Rumi

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“When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.”

-- Ramakrishna

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