A good, simple, god-fearing life.

Make fun of yourself.

No matter the cost.

"All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony. Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace."

Don't just think outside the box, live outside it too. This, for me, is real intelligence; not excelling at school, which simply requires spirit and mind to acquiesce to prevaling forces of conformity.

Other knows Me better than I.

"In the end it’s all very simple. Either we give ourselves to Silence or we don’t."

Spirit brings you to the brink – that subtle shore where we have no choice but to gaze into the unknown. Without it everything is conditional – conditioned by the past – and there is no real future, only repetition of the same old story.

When walking (or running) let the alternating left/right lilt blow the mind, and weave a brocade for the soul. Then it becomes meditation.

Early on in the Israel sojourn – my voluntary exile – I visited a hummus café in South Tel Aviv. It was a tiny place – cheap and cheerful – and the food was great. On finishing the meal I went to the counter to pay, and the short, stocky, and very handsome owner said to me, "You mind I say something?" I said of course not, so he continued, "You too heavy. You take the world too heavy." I smiled at this, and he hurriedly added, "Yes, smile! Smile very good for you!" One of the lessons I'll remember for the rest of my life.

Antinomian

I once asked a bird, "How is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness?" She replied, "Love lifts me."

Tighten up—

Lighten up—

Morning comes, and I shake the dews of night from the wings of my spirit
And mount like a lark, Beloved.

Problems only ever arise when I fail to inhabit the body properly, fully, uniformly; when certain zones are deemed, for whatever reason, no-go areas. Even seemingly permanent institutions such as ego, thinking mind, and the set of opinions and prejudices that these two together concoct, are the product of unnatural tension preventing the unimpeded flow of energy around the body. The body is really the only thing we have so our studies always start and end there.

A figure of speech – it's all just a figure of speech.