When we learn to love, our fine intellect will know where to go.

Meditation is a struggle to switch allegiance from mind to energy, from thinking to breathing. This is our leap of faith.

"Art is a dance between a problem and a possible solution, between a wound and love, so that the wound is transformed and the love is directed by its mission."

"Sometimes my joy, the thrill of painting, deserts me. Then I am left with my theories, my issues, my ideas about right and wrong, as if art were a problem instead of an affirmation. I have to live through these times and wait patiently for another Angel to tap me on the shoulder."

You won't understand by learning to think, but by learning to love.

First visit yesterday to the family doctor – just for a check up. A beautiful man – Mikki Nissim – appropriate name for a thaumaturge. In one sense brimming with experience and confidence – settled comfortably in himself; in another sense trembling with listening energy – alert to the possibility of the unexpected; and in another sense desperately needing something other to make better sense of life. And this is how we should be: a self built on the past, a spirit glimpsing the future and a soul yearning for God.

Peace, if it leads to a dull flabby spirit, only able to fire up when the temper is lost, is far more deadly than war.

Spirit enables you to proceed courageously and decisively, without knowledge or foresight. In fact, spirit, when it burns, makes things so new that prior knowledge hinders rather than helps.

rooted in a carnal setting

Lie to the world and it will have no choice but to lie to you.

A true encounter calls me to withhold my self and share my energy. Self travels inward to its sanctum making me hard (in a good way – solid) to the core, and energy flows outward making me soft (in a good way – melty, fluid) as butter.

"In spite of insomnia, headaches, and worries, perhaps in a better state than ever before."

Converse with all things.

The world perceives me in the same way that I perceive it. So, compassionately or anxiously?

First encounter is so important because habits are instantly set up. This is one reason why vigilance is vital. My teacher had a saying: Once is a habit. He also used to say that if you get it wrong the first time then treat the next time as the first time.

objects can only ever interact on the inside of an intention

Become a philosopher, with as much emphasis on philo as sophia.