If half an onion is black with rot, it is a rotten onion. A man is good or he is evil. (Melisandre of Asshai)
Without the bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance to the whole world?
Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
I had a lot of fun in those days. It was a great experience being in the Eastern Hockey League for the simple reason that you did not have a staff.
I'm interested in being part of a majority in the Senate.
Self-worth is an understanding on the intellectual level, trusting at the heart level, and accepting at the soul level that you are worthy just because you believe that you are. Your worthiness is proven by your existence. Your breathing. The beating of your heart. Your mere presence is all that is needed to establish your worth.
Prayer is the Lord's great sterilizer against the germs of spiritual disease.