This Beautiful Moment

““The only two important things in life are real love and being at peace with yourself.” - Jonathan Carroll, Sleeping in Flame”

To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing; that is enough for one man's life

“People did change, and a change could be a bloom as well as a withering…”

“If you have a weakness, you have to work hard to defend it. You can’t be lazy about it.”

“I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.”

“The loneliness of writing is that you baffle your friends and change the lives of strangers.”

“Everything has changed and yet, I am more me than I’ve ever been.”

All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit is to stop seeking something more or better or different, and to turn your attention inward to the awake silence that you are.

“Truly great people emit a light that warms the hearts of those around them. When that light has been put out, a heavy shadow of despair descends.”

““What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.” - Rumi”

““What is necessary, after all, is only this: solitude, vast inner solitude. To walk inside yourself and meet no one for hours—that is what you must be able to attain.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke”

“Best to distrust this retrospective radiance: gold dust settles over memory and makes it shine.”

When the shell of the ego has been cracked and there begins to be a consciousness of the subliminal and physiological otherness underlying personality, it sometimes happens that we catch a glimpse, fleeting but apocalyptic, of that other Otherness, which is the Ground of all being.

“All I know is something like a bird within her sang All I know she sang a little while and then flew on”

“Pay attention to the things you are naturally drawn to. They are often connected to your path, passion, and purpose in life. Have the courage to follow them.”

“We all have one foot in a fairytale, and the other in the abyss.”