Life is mysterious as well as vulgar.

The Tao Te Ching is partly in prose, partly in verse; but as we define poetry now, not by rhyme and meter but as a patterned intensity of language, the whole thing is poetry. I...

All suffering comes bearing a gift. Every pain is a portal. You must look at the hand of your suffering to see the gift it offers and peer into your pain to see where it...

We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.

That thing over there was more there than it’s there!Yes, sometimes I cry about the perfect body that doesn’t exist.But the perfect body is the bodiest body there can be,And the rest are the dreams...

We realize it will take time to build equity and meaning into the chase. In 1967, when they held the first Super Bowl, America did not come to a halt to watch the game the...

What is 34 in Reality, anyway?

Your muse ain’t singin’ on your MTV? Can’t even see him on your HD TV?

Wise men have interpreted dreams, and the gods have laughed.

Work is easy when it’s full of meaning and shared with others.

What reading level is the word love? It’s a four-letter word everybody knows the meaning of, but nobody can define it.

Or, maybe what really mattered was that game of Crazy 8s.

Poetry doesn’t pay. But I need it. And so do you.

But suppose it was truth double strong, it were no truth to me if I couldna take it in. I daresay there’s truth in yon Latin book on your shelves; but it’s gibberish and no...

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

Every person has a longing to be significant, to make a contribution, to be a part of something noble and purposeful.

When I told the rainbow what its colors meant, it laughed.

The real meaning of things lies deep down and the real meaning of things is always beautiful because it is simply love.

I live completely without regret. Sure there are plenty of things that someone could second guess, but I see the path of life like driving down the road without a map. The thing is, some...

Self-reflection or autognosis reveals that what is given in consciousness is, first and foremost, integral connectedness and organic unity of all thinking, feeling, and desiring. At the same time, self-reflection reveals that this connected unity...

Myths can’t be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.

Live desired in the world, and die lamented.

The Navy speaks in symbols and you may suit what meaning you choose to the words.

power yoga” has a positive effect on physical health; but if there is no aim to ease the mind, to gain self-insight and control of your thoughts, and to experience the divine within you and...

What is fascinating is that it is physical. You know, that’s one thing about intellectuals, they’ve proved that you can be absolute brilliant and have no idea what’s going on. But on the other hand,...

The meaning of life in western secular society is to be successful. So many people are success mad and they are encouraged to reach for something and have so called “worthwhile goals”. Money, fame, power,...

Why are you alive? To discover joy and to share that joy with others.

The key to living a purposeful life lies in identifying how best you can be a vehicle for God’s divine love and light.

[Mathematics] is security. Certainty. Truth. Beauty. Insight. Structure. Architecture. I see mathematics, the part of human knowledge that I call mathematics, as one thing—one great, glorious thing. Whether it is differential topology, or functional analysis,...

Also at times, on the surface of streams,Water?bubbles formAnd grow and burstAnd have no meaning at allExcept that they’re water?bubblesGrowing and bursting.

Partially undermining the manufacturer’s ability to assert that its work constituted a meaningful contribution to mankind was the frivolous way in which it went about marketing its products. Grief was the only rational response to...

The older you get, the faster time passes in your mind, so use your time according to what is most important.

MDMA, it was beginning to be apparent, could be all things to all people.

The truth is that our enjoyments and our evaluations, like our trades, are learned; intensive knowledge, as well as extensive, is acquired. We learn how to value possessions as well as how to make them;...

Am I making something worth while?I’m not sure.I write and I sing and I hear words from time to time about my life and choices making ways, into other lives, other hearts,but am I making...

Peculiar I say, how so often the smallest, most seemingly insignificant details later unveil their faces as vital means for progression.

…perhaps, when it got utterly dark, the peace of the darkness would become the same as light so that my last experience would become as mysterious and musical as my first, so that in my...

Take a stand; go for the right choice. Don’t just sit for anything; stand for something. Be specific because sometimes, when the meaning is not clear, there us absolutely no meaning!

She folds the pages of the books she reads when she wants to remember something important. Her favorite books are accordions, testaments to an endless search for meaning.

I loved him. We all loved him so much.” I started crying, too, and I wondered if these guys had told the football player they loved him while he was alive, or whether it was...

That brief walk was one of those moments he knew he’d remember and look back on, one of those moments that he’d try to capture in the stories he told. Nothing was happening, really, but...

In a way, the futile excuses many people use to cover their superstitions are demolished. They think it is enough to have some sort of religious fervor, however ridiculous, not realizing that true religion must...

The glory of victory softens our view of past frailties.

Practice appreciation for who you are and what you have… and allow your life to unfold in the most amazing way.

The new opportunities have a two-fold meaning.

The rich are poor without the poor’s acknowledgment of money.

…The editors of (i)Life(i) rejected Kerész’a photographs when he arrived in the United States in 1937 because, they said, his images ‘spoke too much’; they made us reflect, suggested a meaning — a different meaning...

Your life should consist of more than commuting, working, eating, surfing the Internet, sleeping and watching TV. Your life should be filled with purpose-driven experiences and projects that bring excitement, passion, energy, and authentic meaning...

I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.

For the human experience, life in the natural world seems to require the application of meaning, in order to evoke purpose.