“I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.”

If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.

She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.

Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.

Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.

It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.

Mystery is the essence of divinity

I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.

Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!

No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.

Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.

My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.

So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.

There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.

A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.

Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.

To me, health is a balanced mind. A balanced mind knows how to get enough rest, how to eat properly, how to exercise. I have come out as just a balanced human being, and I don’t know anything finer than that.

The mind is responsible for the feelings of pleasure and pain. Control of the mind is the highest Yoga.

The mind usually says, “I know, I know, I know.” But the “don’t-know mind” is where wisdom lives.

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.

Oh, scientific mind. You get all your data from us, the senses, but without us you would be nothing.

Mind changes, and as a result, the world changes. A clear mind heals everything that needs to be healed.

Lack and limitation can only exist when we make room for them in our mind.

Mind is there, in front of you. Don’t log in.