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“Days pass when I forget the mystery. Problems insoluble and problems offering their own ignored solutions jostle for my attention, they crowd its antechamber along with a host of diversions, my courtiers, wearing their colored clothes; caps and bells. And then once more the quiet mystery is present to me, the throng's clamor recedes: the mystery that there is anything, anything at all, let alone cosmos, joy, memory, everything, rather than void: and that, 0 Lord, Creator, Hallowed one, You still, hour by hour sustain it.”
Source : Denise Levertov (1997). “The Stream & the Sapphire: Selected Poems on Religious Themes”, p.33, New Directions Publishing
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“On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites.”
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“Books keep the mind active. Without them, complacency is a huge danger.”
Source : Source: www.sjboysread.org
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“We play because we love the game, we love each other, and we love to win.”
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“Our warriors are no longer limited to the people who fly the airplanes...Our entire force is a warrior force. Being a warrior is not an AFSC, ...it's a condition of the heart.”
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“I look at the universe and I know there's an architect.”
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“Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.”
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“Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.”
Source : Mary Caroline Richards (2011). “Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person”, p.8, Wesleyan University Press
