#soul

"This was how it was with travel: one city gives you gifts, another robs you. One gives you the heart’s affections, the other destroys your soul. Cities and countries are as alive, as feeling, as fickle and uncertain as people. Their degrees of love and devotion are as varying as with any human relation. Just as one is good, another is bad."

"The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye."

"My Secret for Out-of-the-Box-Thinking To help me writein my signature out-of-the-box style,I sit in front of my humidifier that I've filled up with Grey Goose vodka.My humidifier is now at Underwriters Laboratoriesin a 12-Step Programand buddied up with a de-humidifier."

"Nebraska State Motto Equality before the law.Where Monsanto/GMO corn is above the law."

"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."

"The Game Is Afoot God's buried eight jewels within my soul.Life's game is,'Remove each gem, yet find me whole.'The clue is,"Eight is one, and one is eight,no jewel's more precious,all equally great."

"There is no samkit (vision with right belief that I am Pure Soul) where there are kashays [anger, pride, deceit and greed], and where there are no kashays, there is samkit (self realization)."

"When soul risesInto lipsYou feel the kiss You have wanted"

"Genocide [10w] Genocide is the runaway bride once death becomes the bridegroom."

"Death Ride Denied At the stables of your agonyDeath brought his morbid mareTo whisk you from your woeful wantsAnd coax you from your cares.A ride you did deny this princeAnd bid him soft farewell,Hoping the morrow must be brighter sinceYour yesterdays were hell."

"Gifts Never look a gift horse in the assor a donkey in the mouth."

"Money [10w] The root of all evil has a well earned reputation."

"Breaking with Tradition is Tradition You can take the poem outside of tradition,but you can't take tradition out of the poem."

"Autumn Ikebana [10w] + {Haiku} Earthen rainbows raked by Autumn's Ikebana of wind arranging leaves.or:Earthen rainbows raked by Autumn's Ikebana of wind arranging leaves."

"Plant vs. Harvest [10w] Any fool can harvest but it takes true skill to plant."

"Death as Opportunity [10w] Death's an opportunity to wisely fill the void it leaves."

"Off the Hook True story...A cop pulls me over for speeding.He says, "What's the hurry?"I say, "I'm running awayfrom a bad marriage."He laughs and says, "Drive carefully."The officer lets me go.Beyond the practical lesson thatmaking a policeman laugh may get you off the hook,there's a certain poetry here in the unexpected connection ~for what is a poemif not a moment of surpriseworth retelling."

"Be still in peace and reach your highest peak."

"I love you,"Matt said.I love you, too,"Maria replied. "I know that's a sin, and I'll probably go to hell for it."If I have a soul, I'll go with you,"promised Matt."

"Till Death Do You Part [10w] Marriage will indeed change people ~for better or for worse."