Most Mystics Do Not Want To Read

The Proper Response To A Great Work Of Art Is To Enter It As Though There Were Nothing Else In The World.

We Are Free When We Are Not The Slave Of Our Impulses, But Rather Their Master. Taking Inward Distance, We Thus Become The Authors Of Our Own Dramas Rather Than Characters In Them.

Poetry Is A Special Use Of Language That Opens Onto The Real. The Business Of The Poet Is Truth Telling, Which Is Why In The Celtic Tradition No One Could Be A Teacher Unless He Or She Was A Poet.

With Mind Distracted, Never Thinking, "death Is Coming," To Slave Away On The Pointless Business Of Mundane Life, And Then To Come Out Empty--it Is A Tragic Error. (116) Trans By Robert Thurman

God Has To Speak To Each Person In Their Own Language, In Their Own Idioms. Take Spanish, Chinese. You Can Express The Same Thought, But To Different People You Have To Use A Different Language. Its The Same In Religion.