"Love Gratefully. This love expands your heart into a greater vessel which can hold yet more love."

-- Harold Klemp

#Heart Quotes #Vessel Quotes

“I always sent my mother all these huge books I made. When my mother died, I was cleaning her cupboard, and these big books were only 20 pages long. She edited out, maybe burned, every single photograph where I'm naked.”
“For my family and Howard's partner, who is like family, for 10 years we were in a state of shock. It takes time to appreciate fully what was going on then. That's connected because post-9/11 New York is so completely different from the way it was and the counterculture movement going on before then was so remarkable; I think people are appreciating it a lot more now.”

Source : "William Burroughs Documentary: Howard Brookner’s Movie Re-Released After Decades Out Of Print". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2017.
“That which is seen and that which is touched are of a dream-like and illusion-like nature. Because feeling arises together with the mind, it is not [ultimately] perceived.”
“If you wish strongly, have courage and endurance, then you can get to the summit of your dream,”
“I always tried to be open-minded, but not so open-minded that my brains would fall out. As G. K. Chesterton says, "The purpose of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to close it again on something solid." I opened my mind, and I finally closed it on the most solid reality I had ever experienced. On December 19, 1959, at 8:30PM, during my second year at the university, I became a Christian.”
“I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..”
“Fate is an obligation I don't understand--the reasons that random beast passed over her deserving soul in favor of mine.”

Source : Andrew X. Pham (2010). “Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam”, p.135, Macmillan
“To work our way towards a shared language once again, we must first learn how to discover patterns which are deep, and capable of generating life.”

Source : Christopher Alexander (1979). “The Timeless Way of Building”, p.12, New York : Oxford University Press

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