"We've been in this dream and now we wake up and start remembering the fullness of ourselves, our higher selves, our sacred nature, and at this time what we're being asked to do is just to let go and allow ourselves to be moved by a current into that more awakened state."

“It's rare for people to genuinely try to understand what others are trying to say.”

Source : Scott Berkun (2011). “Mindfire: Big Ideas for Curious Minds”, p.43, BookBaby

“I've always felt for little children because I love the way they fashion sentences - their vocabulary is limited. They have to navigate around to get to the meaning. It's a shame we bypass that when we gain more words. In a way, it's less honest and less direct. It's something that I appreciate about kids, and I will steal from them at will.”

“I was going to become a youth worker because I do voluntary work with the kids in the little village where I live. I make little films with them and stuff when I'm not working. I thought, I'll pack it in then and go and do something I love doing, and get a regular job because I've got two kids and a mortgage.”

Source : "Gizza job, CBeebies". Interview with Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2009.

“If clothes look like a couch or an ottoman or a love seat, you just wanna stay away from it.”

“Not only during the ascent, but also during the descent my willpower is dulled. The longer I climb the less important the goal seems to me, the more indifferent I become to myself. My attention has diminished, my memory is weakened. My mental fatigue is now greater than the bodily. It is so pleasant to sit doing nothing - and therefore so dangerous. Death through exhaustion is like death through freezing - a pleasant one.”

“I argued that the chastity of women was of much more consequence than that of men, as the property and rights of families depend upon it.”

“For poets today or in any age, the choice is not between freedom on the one hand and abstruse French forms on the other. The choice is between the nullity and vanity of our first efforts, and the developing of a sense of idiom, form, structure, metre, rhythm, line - all the fundamental characteristics of this verbal art.”

Source : "An Introduction to English Poetry". Book by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2002.

“The status quo helps liberals. We're going to change the country.”