I'm Nobody! Who are you?
- Emily Dickinson

One important aspect of finding one's original core is the realization that the deeper one goes into the self, the more poetic one's language and ideas become.
- Thomas Moore

Just as the winged energy of delight
carried you over many chasms early on,
now raise the daringly imagined arch
holding up the astounding bridges.


Miracle doesn't lie only in the amazing
living through the defeat of danger;
miracles become miracles in the clear
achievement that is earned.


To work with things is not hubris
when building the association beyond words;
denser and denser the pattern becomes -
being carried along is not enough.


Take your well-disciplined strengths
and stretch them between two
opposing poles. Because inside human beings
is where God learns.
- Ranier Maria Rilke

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call it forth its riches.
- Rainer Maria Rilke

Today I recognized that the jewel-like beauty
is the presence,
our loving confusion,
the glow in which watery clay gets brighter than fire,
the one we call Friend.
I begged, "Is there a way into you, a ladder?"
"Your head is the ladder, bring it down under your feet."
The mind,
this globe of awareness,
is a starry universe that when you push off with your foot,
a thousand new roads become clear,
as you yourself do at dawn,
sailing through the light.
- Rumi

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
- Rainer Maria Rilke

The Soul should always stand ajar
That if heaven inquire
He will not be obliged to wait.
- Emily Dickinson

You can't remake the world without remaking yourself.
- Ben Okri, Mental Flight