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"...when you are convinced that all the exits are blocked, either you take to believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird. The miracle is that the honey is always there, right under your nose, only you were too busy searching elsewhere to realize it. The worst is not death but being blind, blind to the fact that everything about life is in the nature of the miraculous."
"If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having."
"Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such"
"Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring."
"In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance."
"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware."
"A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition."
"It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart."
"either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird."
"I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company."
"Chaos is the score upon which reality is written."
"Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way."
"Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature."
"Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such."
"No one asks you to throw Mozart out of the window. Keep Mozart. Cherish him. Keep Moses too, and Buddha and Lao Tzu and Christ. Keep them in your heart. But make room for the others, the coming ones, the ones who are already scratching on the window-panes."
"It's good to be just plain happy, it's a little better to know that you're happy; but to understand that you're happy and to know why and how and still be happy, be happy in the being and the knowing, well that is beyond happiness, that is bliss."
"Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him."
"All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience."
"Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves."
"The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself."