Art is a journey into the most unknown thing of all - oneself. Nobody knows his own frontiers… I don’t think I’d ever want to take a road if I knew where it led.
Louis Kahan
The heart that
breaks open can
contain the
whole universe.
Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.
A mere nothing suffices — and the lightning strikes.
listen with a still heart, with a waiting, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgement, without opinions.
There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.
Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end… but not necessarily in that order.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the highest cathedral ceilings and paint my thoughts. But when I open my mouth, everything collapses.
Light the incense! You have to burn to be fragrant.