"One of his tears fell in my mouth, where it became a blue sapphire, source of strength, source of strength and eternal hope."

-- Anita Diament

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“With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.”
“I did the 'Tonight Show' once, and I choked up. I get intimidated.”
“Five days a week I drive from our home to the Episcopal Cathedral Center of Los Angeles where I have an office, my computer, and a wonderful sense of community - especially nurtured by the presence of several younger gay men and women who are good friends.”
“I sell my first book to Random House, a memoir of my years as a war photographer, for twice my NBC salary.”
“One of my experiences around feminist risk and change is that it's difficult, if not impossible, to put new wine into old wineskins.”
“If I haven't anything to write, I am just as anxious to 'take my pen in hand' as though I had a message to deliver, a cause to plead, or a problem to unfold. Nothing but writing rests me; only then do I seem completely myself!”
“That is the challenge of a spiritual teacher: not to take on board the projections of specialness people have. This is especially dangerous for spiritual teachers who only have contact with disciples or followers, who may live in an ashram.”
“The fact that creative powers come from an area of the mind that seems to be independent of the conscious will, and often emerge with a good deal of emotional disturbance in their wake, provides the chief analogy between prophecy and the arts...Some people pursue wholeness and integration, others get smashed up, and fragments are rescued from the smash of an intensity that the wholeness and integration people do not reach.”

Source : "The Collected Works of Northrop Frye, Volume 19: 'The Secular Scripture' and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1976-1991". Book by Northrop Frye, November 1, 2005.

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