“And now we step to the rhythm of miracles. –from The Light, That Never Dies”

If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience… would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love?

Got just enough room to be a friend of yours. Oh I hope you got room to be a friend of mine.

Stars ink your fingers with a lexicon of flame blazing rare knowledge.

Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith.

Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.

What they suffered from was not mental debilitation, but personal and communal ignorance of psychic reality.

The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery.

Authentic inspiration endows individuals with mental or spiritual energy which they are then able to transform into positive action.

And other facets of human existence. Looking in certain other corners of the same mirror, he or she may experience glimpses of a True Self sheltered deftly behind a mask of public proprieties.

Minister and writer Barbara Kaufmann has addressed the subject of guerrilla decontextualization on both the ‘Voices Compassionate Education’ website and on ‘Inner Michael’,

Trayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself.

They speak across different dividing lines such as those of haves and have-nots, youth and maturity, black and white, national and global, and the past and the present.

Death wins nothing here, gnawing wings that amputate–– then spread, lift up, fly.

Many may very well continue to ask why more value is placed on technicalities of a law than on a man’s flesh and blood life, especially when there is any amount of “doubt” at all regarding his guilt or innocence.

Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple.

The political, social, and spiritual impact of the life example set by Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

I never treat it like a job or feel that way. It’s the best thing ever to me, and I feel like a kid in a candy store.

I will never say ‘retired’ because that’s such a finality that I don’t want to be part of my life. I’ll work until they throw me in a box.

If you’re so afraid of failure, you will never succeed. You have to take chances.

The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character.

My wife loves football, but I think she’s resigned to the fact that I’ll never make it there.

A winner never stops trying.

The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed.