"We feel most small, we feel most challenged when we're only focusing on ourselves. Because even when you fulfill yourself, meaning you get what you think you want, you still find yourself in a position where it's never enough."

“So many pleasing episodes of one's life are spoiled by shouting. You never heard of an unhappy marriage unless the neighbors have heard it first.”

“At no time have I ever said that people should be stripped of their right to the insanity of belief in God. If they want to practice this kind of irrationality, that's their business. It won't get them anywhere; it certainly won't make them happier or more compassionate human beings; but if they want to chew that particular cud. they're welcome to it.”

“I don't know how to sit outside myself and test against a hypothetical self who stayed home.”

“Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.”

“Real zeal is standing still and letting God be a bonfire in you.”

Source : "Poustinia" by Catherine Doherty, (Ch. 5), 1975.

“Try to keep them, poet, those erotic visions of yours, however few of them there are that can be stilled. Put them, half-hidden, in your lines.”

Source : Constantine P. Cavafy, “When They Come Alive”

“Witchcraft ... is a spiritual path. You walk it for nourishment of the soul, to commune with the life force of the universe, and to thereby better know your own life.”

Source : Christopher Penczak (2002). “The Inner Temple of Witchcraft: Magick, Meditation and Psychic Development”, p.25, Llewellyn Worldwide

“If an artist comes intuitively from the point of design, notan - lightness/darkness - is natural.”