The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.
From Henry Miller
There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.
In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.
Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'
It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.
The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself.
Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
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