The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
Jean Cocteau
A LIGHT exists in spring
Not present on the year
At any other period.
When March is scarcely here
A color stands abroad
On solitary hills
That silence cannot overtake,
But human nature feels.
Emily Dickinson
... for it is the task of man to become what he is.
Karlfried Durckheim
It is in the heart of silence that all revelations can happen
Mary Madeleine Davy - Self knowledge
What we are used to call "creative" is only a weak reflexion of the forces which have produced us.
Roland Fisher
Peace through conquest, work in joy. These are waiting for us beyond the line where empires are setup against other empires, in an interior totalisation of the world upon itself, in the unanimous construction of a spirit of the earth.
Teilhard de Chardin
Le Phénomène Humain (The Phenomenon of Man)
Like cures like: A theory of life must have a base in beauty if it would explain the beauty that life seeks.
James Hillman | The soul's code
From the evening breeze to this hand on my shoulder, everything has its truth. Consciousness illuminates it by paying attention to it.
Albert Camus
But spritual life is about Truth, not about a cure.
Da Free John
Easy death.
The more a human being feels himself a self, tries to intensify this self and reach a never attainable perfection, the more drastically he steps out of the center of being, which is no longer now his own center, and the further he removes himself from it.
Eugen Herrigel - Zen and the Art of Archery
The right way to wholeness is made up of fateful detours and wrong turnings.
