“I don’t think I’m tangible to myself. I mean, I think one thing today and I think another thing tomorrow. I change during the coarse of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else. I don’t know who I am most of the time. It doesn’t even matter to me.” — Bob Dylan

“I know it looks like I’m moving, but I’m standing still.” — Bob Dylan

“I could stay with you forever and still never realize the time.” — Bob Dylan

“Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.” — Jack Kerouac

“Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression.” — Henry Homes

“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.” — Edgar Allan Poe

Gem Club - Polly

“To concern ourselves with dreams is a way of reflecting on ourselves-a way of self-reflection. It is not our ego-consciousness reflecting on itself; rather, it turns its attention to the objective actuality of the dream as a communication or message from the unconscious, unitary soul of humanity. It reflects not on the ego but on the self; it recollects that strange self, alien to the ego, which was ours from the beginning, the trunk from which the ego grew. It is alien to us because we have estranged ourselves from it through the aberrations of the conscious mind.” — Carl Jung

“Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land.” — Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.” — Pat Conroy

“The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.” — Sigmund Freud

“Weird behavior is natural in smart children, just as curiosity is to a kitten. ” — Hunter S. Thompson Kingdom of Fear

Women's hats contain so many possibilities for subtle sensual expression.

My favorite journey is looking out the window.

The Moth And The Flame - The Hunt

“I AM the spaciousness in which in Life unfolds. I encircle everything, yet, I am not the thing itself, but I am the essence, which cannot be named or seen. For if I am seen, you will ascribe what is limitless into that particular form. I can only be experienced, remembered and known through you. Come home to me, after a long day, in the moment of a break-up, after a death of a loved one, after the an argument and get to know who you really are, in silence, in peace.” — Marcus Thomas

“It’s only by stopping movement that you can see where to go. And it’s only by stepping out of your life and the world that you can see what you most deeply care about and find a home. And home, in the end, is of course not just the place where you sleep. It’s the place where you stand.” — Pico Iyer

Try to be mindful, and let things take their natural course. Then your mind will become still in any surroundings, like a clear forest pool. All kinds of wonderful, rare animals will come to drink at the pool, and you will clearly see the nature of all things. You will see many strange and wonderful things come and go, but you will be still.” — - Ajahn Chah

“I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle.” — Kurt Vonnegut

“Flow in the living moment. — We are always in a process of becoming and NOTHING is fixed. Have no rigid system in you, and you’ll be flexible to change with the ever changing. OPEN yourself and flow, my friend. Flow in the TOTAL OPENNESS OF THE LIVING MOMENT. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.” — Bruce Lee

Live in a reality of your own creation.

The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.

“Discipline is remembering what you want.” — David Campbell

“Now the night flows back, the mighty stillness embraces and includes me; I can see the stars again and the world of starlight. I am twenty miles or more from the nearest fellow human, but instead of loneliness I feel loveliness. Loveliness and a quiet exultation.” — Edward Abbey

“Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that’s beautiful.” — Milan Kundera

“I have to be alone very often. I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That’s how I refuel.” — Audrey Hepburn

“I am not a teacher, but an awakener.” — Robert Frost

“Eventually, everything connects.” — Charles Eames

What is done in love is done well. -Vincent Van Gogh

time to paint.

“The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.” — Willem de Kooning

“Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.” -William Shakespare

“I’m a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desire” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Two souls are sometimes created together and in love before they’re born.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

"somewhere the night sky hangs like a blanket, shoot it with my capgun just to make it seem likes stars"

inspiring beyond words...

“I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours” ― Bob Dylan

“Close friends are truly life’s treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone.” — Vincent van Gogh

Music is my religion

“The search for Reality is the most dangerous of all undertakings, for it destroys the world in which you live.” — Nisargadatta Maharaj

“The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will” — Chuck Palahniuk

“The answer is never the answer. What’s really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you’ll always be seeking. I’ve never really seen anybody find the answer - they think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom.” — Ken Kesey

At night, when the objective world has slunk back into its cavern and left dreamers to their own, there come inspirations and capabilities impossible at any less magical and quiet hour.

“We shouldn’t stick too close to everyday reality but give room to the reality of the heart, of the mind, and of the imagination” — Hayao Miyazaki

Imagination relies on empty perception. Painting relies on empty planes. Sculpture relies on empty space. Music relies on empty time. Literature relies on empty concepts. If we are to realize the art of freedom, if we are to discover our creative potential, we need to rely on the experience of our intrinsic vibrant emptiness—the beginningless ground of what we are.” — Roaring Silence

“It’s beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. It means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.” — Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Something amazing happens when we surrender and just love. We melt into another world, a realm of power already within us. The world changes when we change. The world softens when we soften. The world loves us when we choose to love the world.” — Marianne Williamson