#inspiration

"Gaps don't/just happen./There is a/generative element/inside them,/a welling motion/as when cold/waters shoulder/up through/warmer oceans./And where gaps/choose to widen,/coordinates warp,/even in places/constant since/the oldest maps."

"What is more yours than what always holds you back?"

"We will never have a perfect world, but it’s not romantic or naïve to work toward a better one."

"I'll be inside the one who holds you. And then I won't be."

"Take Care of Yourself First- It’s Easier to Serve Others That Way."

"If you always attach positive emotions to the things you want, and never attach negative emotions to the things you don't, then that which you desire most will invariably come your way."

"A too closely watched flower/blossoms the wrong color./Excess attention to the jonquil/turns it gentian. Flowers/need it tranquil to get/their hues right. Some/only open at midnight."

"I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand,that Joplin had the last drunken throat,that Morrison had the last enlightened mind."

"The road to wealth is sown with false starts and failures that should in no way discourage the poor who make good or our neighbors with new found riches. We have to give it our all."

"There are two things we should always be 1. raw and 2. ready. When you are raw, you are always ready and when you are ready you usually realize that you are raw. Waiting for perfection is not an answer, one cannot say "I will be ready when I am perfect"because then you will never be ready, rather one must say "I am raw and I am ready just like this right now, how and who I am."

"You might be looking forward to working, falling in love, marrying, raising a family. You are told that you should expect to find a job paying so much, where your hours are so much, where your responsibilities are so much.That is what is expected of you. And if you live up to it, it will be an awful waste.If you expect that, you will be limiting yourself."

"Stay present for the “now” of your life. It’s your “point of power."

"With a lump forming in his throat, he thoughtabout all the hopes and dreams that he had for his son. More thananything, he prayed his boy would not grow up to be a screw uplike his dad when it came to love and marriage."

"Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas."

"Your inspiration taps hidden reserves of promise that sustain people through times that induce despair. You enable people to envision a future that sustains the best from their past while also holding out new possibilities."

"Worship is the marriage of two Spirits - the Spirit of God and the Spirit of man."

"It may be escapist, but if I have a choice between watching the news or reading a book which gets me to see the world through different eyes, I will always choose the latter!"

"You don’t have to stay trapped in your thoughts just because you think them."

"If you seek creative ideas go walking.Angels whisper to a man when he goes fora walk."

"Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me."