#inspiration

"Inspiration is the windfall from hard work and focus. Muses are too unreliable to keep on the payroll."

"Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire."

"Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free."

"The little boy nodded at the peony and the peony seemed to nod back. The little boy was neat, clean and pretty. The peony was unchaste, dishevelled as peonies must be, and at the height of its beauty.(...) Every hour is filled with such moments, big with significance for someone."

"The only difference between a grown-up's mistake and a child's is the size of the consequence."

"Those who don't value their words, will never value your wishes."

"Believe, my child. Faith is the food of survival."

"It's better to dare to dream big and achieve half of your dreams than to dream small dreams and achieve all"

"Be thankful for a breath of fresh air to be alive and well. Allow love and happiness to penetrate throughout your mind and soul. Take time to relax and live in the moment, the now, the present. Enjoy today."

"Imagine others complexly."

"The whales do not sing because they have an answer, they sing because they have a song."

"Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe."

"I haven't measured it, but I'll bet cat purrs vibrate at a healing frequency. Also, a whispered I love you almost certainly resonates with heart and DNA repair."

"Today is today, only today... tomorrow...it will only be yesterday."

"It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men could be more than they are, if they would try for it. He has shown them that."

"You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose."

"Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter."

"Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio."

"There are Tantrics who deliberately seek to do more active forms of renunciation, so transgression of social norms and breaking of taboo, and breaking of social taboos especially, is a form of renunciation."

"the joy that you give to others is the joy that comes back to you"