Contradiction is a lower degree of intelligence.
I did not love man-made laws and I abhor the traditions that our ancestors left us.
Most men with delicate feelings hasten to hurt your feelings lest you precede them and hurt theirs.
The truly religious man does not embrace a religion; and he who embraces one has no religion.
Souls are fires whose ashes are the bodies.
Science and religion are in full accord, but science and faith are in complete discord.
That which we call intelligence in the mind of some people is but a local inflammation.
We are all practical in our own interest and idealists when it concerns others.
Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation.
Among intelligent people the surest basis for marriage is friendship-the sharing of real interests-the ability to fight out ideas together and understand each other's thoughts and dreams.
-1923
Marriage doesn't give one any rights in another person except such rights as that person gives-nor any freedom except the freedom which that person gives.
The idea of God is different in every man, and one can never give another his own religion. -Mary Haskell
Find out the best in a person and tell him about it. We all need that. I have grown up on praise-and it has made me humble. It will always make a person long to deserve the praise. And any real consciousness is aware of something much greater than itself. Praise means understanding. We all are fine and great, fundamentally; overestimation of one another is impossible. Learn to see the greatness and the loveliness in one another–and to tell one another of it when we see it.
I realized, that all the trouble I ever had about you came from some smallness or fear in myself.
From "I care about your Happiness"
I’m in the middle of a fun experiment
No really, a happy experiment
I want to know if a disciplined person
Can simply chase her pleasures
And attract the life of her dreams
Her dormant, closeted dreams
Which lack a bridge from the now
The test is whether joy lights the paths
That the heart desires
Since the mind gets stuck in the mud
Sinking into the mystery
Watching it all like a traveler
I’ve given up
On feeling bad
Life is too short
For pain the mind creates
My ego swells when problems arise
I turn inward
Close my eyes
Let go of your hand
All I see are my faults
Shortcomings
Dispair
I imagine deep holes to fall into
But I’ve learned
I’m horribly
Allergic to fear
It makes me break out
It makes me ugly
Fat
Frozen
And sick
And delusional
Life must always be joyful
The sun never cries
What’s done is done
And what will be
Will be amazing
Cuz it always is
We’ll get through it together
Because we’re all in this ocean
We don’t have time to stall
Swim the currents without fear
"To pass from the external to a direct and intimate inner consciousness; to widen consciousness out of the limits of the ego and the body; to heighten it by an inner will and aspiration and opening to the Light till it passes in its ascent beyond Mind; to bring down a descent of the supramental Divine through self-giving and surrender with a consequent transformation of mind, life and body – this is the integral way to the Truth."
God, help me understand why I feel so empty today. So lifeless and useless. Feeling like I need to be sparked and taken advantage of. Why do I feel like a waste of carbon? Like nothing is moving? Why can't I appreciate my stillness without trying to fill it up?
Tonight I almost touched the sun
We’ve been coming together
In nightly ceremonies
Hoping one day our hearts
Will open so wide
They swallow each other
For a taste of the One
We’d die to be born into
That feeling of stillness, that buzzing, that calm
Where all is light
And movement is dance
But tonight
We walked close up
Beheld the glory
Then teetered away like toddlers
My stomach is full
My heart wide open
Today I received
All that I gave
I’m slowly recharging
I’m almost there
I’ll feel like this
All the time
When life is just giving
And blessings abound
All our cups filled
And overflowing
When work is easy
And difficulties die
To opportunities
In every dilemma
How long can I hold this?
And do God’s work?
God never hates his job
It’s all perfect Love
We are handed a world of other people's dreams. Our mission is to have the courage to express our dreams. That boring blocky skyscraper? Not my dream! Mine would be an imaginative, organic mound full of fun and surprises, sunlight and secret nooks.
You found me in my kitchen
Dancing, singing, baking
You lit my stove and drove away
The way you like to do
I found you in your car
I told you to keep dreaming
There's a woman in the world
Who will let you be all you
He found me on the web
And shared a poem with the world
It made me soar and cry
And wonder if this man I knew
I found him on his phone
He was flying in the dark
I checked in like I do
Almost every day or two