“What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is related only to objects and not to individuals, or to life. That art is something which is specialized or which is done by experts who are artists. But couldn’t everyone’s life become a work…

The Serenity Prayer… “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.” Ahh…knowing the difference…now that is a tough one. We tell ourselves that we must step back! Allow people to come into their…

“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water…

“Bring something incomprehensible into the world!” — Gilles Deleuze *** “My soul, where are you? Do you hear me? I speak, I call you — are you there? I have returned, I am here again. I have shaken the dust of all the lands from my feet, and I have…

“Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying ad cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.” — Gilles Deleuze ** “The life that I could still live, I should live, and the thoughts that I could still think, I should think.” — C.G…

“Traumatized people chronically feel unsafe inside their bodies: The past is alive in the form of gnawing interior discomfort. Their bodies are constantly bombarded by visceral warning signs, and, in an attempt to control these processes, they often become expert at ignoring their gut feelings and in numbing awareness of…

“The unborn are a convenient group of people to advocate for. They never make demands of you; they are morally uncomplicated, unlike the incarcerated, addicted, or the chronically poor; they don’t resent your condescension or complain that you are not politically correct; unlike widows, they don’t ask you to question…

The Happiness Paradox. — “I think where I am not, therefore I am where I do not think. I am not whenever I am the plaything of my thought; I think of what I am where I do not think to think.” *** “The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but…

And the nature within a mystical experience — “Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.” — William James *** “I went across the road, as I often did, for a cup of…