#God

"Ars Poetica: Write Poetry on a Black Slate Poetry should be written on a black slate of imagination,the poet artfully allowing images to emerge from the dark."

"We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence."

"The Cure [10w] Laughter, love and faith can cure 95% of all illnesses."

"Human desire is the criterion of all truth and all good. Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling. There is really nothing to fear. The motive of fear in religion is base..."

"Is the god the source, or is the god a human manner of conceiving of the force and energy that supports the world? In our tradition God is a male. This male and female differentiation is made, however, within the field of time and space, the field of duality. If God is beyond duality, you cannot say that God is a "He."You cannot say God is a "She."You cannot say God is an "It."(18)"

"We will never be happy until we make God the source of our fulfillment and the answer to our longings. He is the only one who should have power over our souls."

"Maine State Motto Dirigo. [10]You won't find no niggers here, eh."

"The highest prize we can receive for creative work is the joy of being creative. Creative effort spent for any other reason than the joy of being in that light filled space, love, god, whatever we want to call it, is lacking in integrity. . ."

"Suffering can bend & break us. But it can also break us open to become the persons God intended us to be. It depends on what we do with the pain. If we offer it back to God, He will use it to do great things in us & through us, because suffering is fertile... it an grow new life."

"The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays."

"They should know that just because things get difficult, it's no reason to believe God is on vacation."

"What Brahman is cannot be described. All things in the world — the Vedas, the Puranas, the Tantras, the six systems of philosophy — have been defiled, like food that has been touched by the tongue, for they have been read or uttered by the tongue. Only one thing has not been defiled in this way, and that is Brahman. No one has ever been able to say what Brahman is."

"Stratospherical Poems [10w] Poets circle the earth in a higher orbit than readers."

"‎God remains silent so that men and women may speak, protest, and struggle. God remains silent so that people may really become people. When God is silent and men and women cry, God cries in solidarity with them but doesn't intervene. God waits for the shouts of protest."

"Worthy character is best forged from a life of consistent, correct choices centered in the teachings of the Master."

"Becoming [10w] We're a becoming whose final shape is unknown to all."

"Cancer [10w] It's odd that the cancer that kills you is you."

"California [10w] No two snowflakes are alike,unless they're California yoga practitioners."

"Love and Blindness [10w] Love may be unilaterally blind,but divorce blinds both parties."

"While the impostor draws his identity from past achievements and the adulation of others, the true self claims identity in its belovedness. We encounter God in the ordinariness of life: not in the search for spiritual highs and extraordinary, mystical experiences but in our simple presence in life."