“The farther we've gotten from the magic and mystery of our past, the more we've come to need Halloween."― Paula Curan Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“Whatever your eye falls on - for it will fall on what you love - will lead you to the questions of your life, the questions that are incumbent upon you to answer, because that is how the mind works in concert with the eye. The things of this world draw us where we need to go.” ― Mary Rose O'Reilley, The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.” ― Oprah Winfrey Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“That luminous part of you that exists beyond personality–your soul, if you will–is as bright and shining as any that has ever been....Clear away everything that keeps you separate from this secret luminous place. Believe it exists, come to know it better, nurture it, share its fruits tirelessly.” ― George Saunders Art by Gilbert Williams Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“I keep following this sort of hidden river of my life, you know, whatever the topic or impulse which comes, I follow it along trustingly. And I don't have any sense of its coming to a kind of crescendo, or of its petering out either. It is just going steadily along.” ― William Stafford Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand – but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied.” ― Zadie Smith Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“As a kid, she'd always loved Halloween. A magic night. A night when anything could happen. Monsters could be real. Magic could whisper in the air.” ― Cynthia Eden, A Bit of Bite Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“Never underestimate how much assistance, how much satisfaction, how much comfort, how much soul and transcendence there might be in a well-made taco and a cold bottle of beer.” ― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! =AZW04T4kdqZTEN10isUk_Q5bKuMl1MqKR4aNM9ytfpKfnk98QoD9BHjgMTWTL4DmCqFRw0zo8G8ZZcIwFQqjebvvfkN23huW8Cpe1DaGwcZX4JLlLuOl5UxmZsBVUN0WLwk&__tn__=EH-R'] =AZW04T4kdqZTEN10isUk_Q5bKuMl1MqKR4aNM9ytfpKfnk98QoD9BHjgMTWTL4DmCqFRw0zo8G8ZZcIwFQqjebvvfkN23huW8Cpe1DaGwcZX4JLlLuOl5UxmZsBVUN0WLwk&__tn__=EH-R']
“As I meditate, I leave my attachments and definitions behind, finding myself in a place of stillness, a place that only exists between the last word of a sentence… and the period.” ― Alex Kakuyo, Perfectly Ordinary: Buddhist Teachings for Everyday Life Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“Everything was real; inconceivably real, infinitely dear. These and all things started as nothing, latent within a vast energy-broth, but then we named them, and loved them, and, in this way, brought them forth. And now we must lose them.” ― George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“It isn't by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into the world…by getting so tuned in that we can ride the waves of our existence and never get tossed because we become the waves.” ― Ken Kesey, Kesey's Garage Sale Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.” ― Martha Graham Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
"Be afraid. Be very afraid."--The Fly Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
"If milk and eggs qualify chocolate cake as breakfast, I feel that the milkshake may be the smoothie equivalent."--Melinda Ellisor
“It was November--the month of crimson sunsets, parting birds, deep, sad hymns of the sea, passionate wind-songs in the pines. Anne roamed through the pineland alleys in the park and, as she said, let that great sweeping wind blow the fogs out of her soul.” ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
"The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself."---William Blake Art by William Blake Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“Know thyself! That was the best joke ever perpetrated. A steaming universe of germ-cells, a maelstrom of animal forces, of which he himself, his personality, was only the collective gleam.” ― Conrad Aiken, Blue Voyage
“It's no good trying to get rid of your aloneness. You've got to stick to it all your life. Only at times, at times, the gap will be filled in. At times! But you have to wait for the times. Accept your aloneness and stick to it, all your life. And then accept the times when the gap is filled in, when they come. But they've got to come. You can't force them.” ― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
