"I was a liberal arts junkie and I figured, well, I'll go work for somebody somewhere. All I knew was that I was going to have to come home and figure it out."

-- Mary Chapin Carpenter

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“I saw my Lord with the Eye of my heart, and I said: "Who are you?" He answered: "You!"”

Source : "In the Company of Friends: Dreamwork Within a Sufi Group". Book by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, p. 86, 1994.
“An opened mind will eventually lead to a more well rounded artist and this will thus heightenen his or her level of professionalism.”
“I look at the textures, surfaces, colors, and the individual objects in the painting. And then I wonder: what are the relationships among them? Those relationships are everything.”
“And, because my role in society Ââ€”or any artist or poet's roleâ€” is to try to express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel, not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all. And it's like that's the job of the artist in society, not toâ€¦ they're not some alienated being living on the outskirts of town. It's fine to live on the outskirts of town, but artists must reflect what we all are. [â€¦] If that's taken it too much on meself, I feel that artists are that: they're reflections of societyâ€¦ mirrors.”
“Where are my sensations? They have melted into... me, and what is this me, this self, but the sum of these evaporated sensations?”
“Courage is a scorner of things which inspire fear.”
“I was trying to figure out what to do next, I'd been accumulating ideas for productivity tools - software people could use every day, particularly to help organize their lives.”
“That which you manifest is before you.”

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