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You work that you may keep pace with the earth and the soul of the earth. For to be idle is to become a stranger unto the seasons, and to step out of life's procession, that marches in majesty and proud submission towards the infinite.

—Kahlil Gibran

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The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings the past and the future are not as real, but more real than the present.

—Alan Watts

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I am myself plus my circumstance, and if I do not save it, I cannot save myself.

—Ortega y Gasset

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There are numerous sidetracks which lead to a distorted ego-centered version of spirituality; we can deceive ourselves into thinking we are developing spiritually when instead we are strengthening our egocentricity through spiritual techniques.

—Chogyam Trungpa, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

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Those who justify themselves do not convince. To know truth one must get rid of knowledge; nothing is more powerful and creative than emptiness.

—Laozi

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It's a kind of test, Mary, and it's the only kind that amounts to anything. When something rotten like this happens, then you have your choice. You start to really be alive, or you start to die. That's all.

—James Agee A Death In The Family

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Dare we open our doors to the source of our being? What are flesh and bones for?

—Paul Reps

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There is only one thing pain is good for. It teaches you to love. God bless pain.

—Joey Goldfarb

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You must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.

—Samuel Beckett

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The finest sensibilities of the age are convulsed with pain. That means a change is at hand.

—Leonard Cohen

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There is something about women, they like to talk, and they think that they get to know what a man is thinking by talking, like they get to know a man that way and that's a laugh, ain't it . . . when actually a man don't even know hisself . . .

—Albert Henry DeSalvo (The Boston Strangler)

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. . . the more the soul knows, the more she loves, and loving much, she tastes much.

—St. Catherine of Siena, 1370 A.D.

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Personally, I find what one might term the "post-act" reformers the hardest to bear, as sated, they condemn the means by which they achieved satiation — prostitution and its instrument, yourself, abjuring you to give it up before it's too late, a nice girl like you.

—anonymous streetwalker In Their Own Behalf, by Charles McCaghy, James Skipper, Jr., and Mark Lefton

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I learned one thing.

'What?'

Never to go on trips with anyone you do not love.

—Ernest Hemingway A Moveable Feast

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You are not stuck in time like a fly in a closed bottle, whose wings are therefore useless. You cannot trust your physical senses to give you a true picture of reality. They are lovely liars, with such a fantastic tale to tell that you believe it without question.

—Jane Roberts, Seth Speaks

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