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"Many of the most deeply spiritual moments of my life haven't happened just in my mind or in my soul. They happened while holding my son in the middle of the night, or watching the water break along the shore, or around my table, watching the people I love feel nourished in all sorts of ways."

"Sublime Beauty When I shut my eyes, I can move mountains.When I open them, mountains can move me."

"Melting Icicles Haiku Drip, drip, Drip, drip, Drip:Sounds of melting iciclesannouncing the Spring"

"She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog."

"What's in it for me?' A selfish person doesn't become compassionate as the result of some words of wisdom or epiphany. The selfish need selfish reasons to act unselfish."

"Leap of Faith [10w] Seeing God withinis where the leap of faith lands."

"There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul."

"We must never stop dreaming. Dreams provide nourishment for the soul, just as a meal does for the body."

"Conscience is thus explained only as the voice of God in the soul."

"I could watch him do this until morning — never asking questions and never interrupting his work. I worship quietly — his intense focus and attention to detail and then, out of no where, I realize the inconvenient, inappropriate truth: ‘I love this man… and it has swallowed me."

"Ferdinand VII of Spain {Couplet} He who can false loyalty feignshall sit twice upon the throne of Spain."

"Poetry is a Ladder {C☰O☰U☰P☰L☰E☰T} {The poet's job is to create a ladder} {for the reader to enter his imagination}and☰once☰they've☰climbed☰u­p☰to☰the ☰top☰remove☰each☰rung☰by☰grad­ation"

"Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open."

"The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it."

"Kansas State Motto Ad astra per aspera. [9]Flat land and flatline intelligence."

"Something, somewhere, knows what’s best for me and promises to keep sending me people and experiences to light my way as long as I live in gratitude and keep paying attention to the signs."

"My brain is divided into two butterflies, and both are in love with your rose-shaped heart. If you've got the garden, I've got my whole life."

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."

"The essence of all things determines souls that are fit to send messages for their kinds."

"Entering a cell, penetrating deep as a flying saucer to find a new galaxy would be an honorable task for a new scientist interested more in the inner state of the soul than in outer space."