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“Play it fuckin' loud!”
― Bob Dylan

“My advice is this, do whatever pleases yourself. These things don’t matter. What does matter is that if you have anything worth while in you, any talent, you should deliver it. Nothing must turn you from that.”
― Patrick Kavanagh, Tarry Flynn

“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

“Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.”
― Thomas Pynchon, V.

“Let the wild rumpus start!”
― Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
― Albert Camus

“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.”
― Bob Dylan

“One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment.”
― Hart Crane

“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.”
― William Morris

“I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.”
― Plotinus

“All know the way; few actually walk it.”
― Bodhidharma

“Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.”
― Bodhidharma

“When Verlaine and Rimbaud were young,” [Snyder] said, they were protesting the iron-grip bourgeois rationality had on all aspects of nineteenth-century French culture— the manners, the view of reality, and the exclusion of ‘the wild’ from public life. Rationality in business and society were dominant values. ‘Deranging the senses’ was one strategy artists like Verlaine and Rimbaud employed to break free of that.

“Today,” he continued, “the bourgeoisie is sociopathic, overindulged, distracted, spoiled beyond measure, and unable to restrain its gluttony, even in the face of pending planetary destruction. In the face of such a threat, it has, by necessity, become the responsibility of the artist to model health and sanity.”
― Peter Coyote, The Rainman's Third Cure: An Irregular Education

“If a thing loves, it is infinite.”
― William Blake

“What is now proved was once only imagined.”
― William Blake

“Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.”
― William Blake

“He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.”
― William Blake

“When mountain-climbing is made too easy, the spiritual effect the mountain exercises vanishes into the air.”
― D.T. Suzuki, The Training of the Zen Buddhist Monk

“In Zen there must be satori; there must be a general mental upheaval which destroys the old accumulations of intellection and lays down the foundation for a new life; there must be the awakening of a new sense which will review the old things from a hitherto undreamed-of angle of observation.”
― D.T. Suzuki, An Introduction to Zen Buddhism

“A soulmate is an ongoing connection with another individual that the soul picks up again in various times and places over lifetimes. We are attracted to another person at a soul level not because that person is our unique complement, but because by being with that individual, we are somehow provided with an impetus to become whole ourselves.”
― Edgar Cayce

“There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us,
it doesn't behoove any of us to speak evil of the rest of us
”
― Edgar Cayce

“Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.”
― Arthur Rimbaud

“The healing hero, therefore, is the one who finds some creative way out, a way not already known, and does not follow a pattern. Ordinary sick people follow ordinary patterns, but the shaman cannot be cured by the usual methods of healing. He has to find the unique way, the only way that applies to him. The creative personality who can do that then becomes a healer and is recognized as such by his colleagues.”
― Marie-Louise von Franz, The Problem of the Puer Aeternus

“Our highest endeavor must be to develop free human beings who are able of themselves to impart purpose and direction to their lives. The need for imagination, a sense of truth, and a feeling of responsibility—these three forces are the very nerve of education.”
― Rudolf Steiner

“If we do not believe within ourselves this deeply rooted feeling that there is something higher than ourselves, we shall never find the strength to evolve into something higher.”
― Rudolf Steiner

“Feelings are for the soul what food is for the body.”
― Rudolf Steiner, How to Know Higher Worlds: A Modern Path of Initiation

“You will not be good teachers if you focus only on what you do and not upon who you are.”
― Rudolf Steiner

“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
― John Keats