Be grateful for whatever comes because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.

All language is a longing for home. ~ MARRY YOUR MUSE

Come out of the circle of time / And into the circle of love. ~ CONTEMPLATIVE CROCHET

Art is a taste of enlightenment without the full experience.

Beyond ideas, there’s a field. Will you meet me there?

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

Don't look for help from someone other than yourself. The remedy for your wound is the wound itself.

Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Drum sound rises on the air, its throb, my heart./A voice inside the beat says, "I know you're tired, but come. This is the way."

Every tree and plant in the meadow seemed to be dancing, those which average eyes would see as fixed and still.

Everything has to do with loving and not loving.

I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens.I've been knocking from the Inside!

I want to sing like the birds sing not worrying about who hears or what they think.

Be wild crazy and drunk with love. If you are too careful, love will not find you.

Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape.

Close both eyes to see with the other eye.

Do you think I know what I'm doing? That for one breath I belong to myself? As much as a pen knows what it's writing or the ball can guess where it's going next.

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