Unlock

So oftentimes it happens
That we live our lives in chains
And we never even know we have the key

Where You Lead

Everything in your life comes from a thought or feeling you have, for your inner world of thoughts and feelings creates your outer world of events, objects, and relationships.

The Zen Master Asks

I want to know if your umbrella is on the right or left side of the clogs.

Beating Lady Luck

DiMaggio's remarkable achievement--its uniqueness, in the unvarnished literal sense of that word--lies in whatever he did to extend his success well beyond the reasonable expectations of random models that have governed every other streak or slump in the history of baseball.

In an Animal's Mind

There is only the everlasting present of a single generation--its trails in the forest, its hidden pathways of the air and in the sea.

Cowboy Thoreau

Many of his shots ricochet and nick him on the rebound, and throughout th melee there is a horrendous cloud of inconsistencies and contradictions, and when the shooting dies down and the air clears, one is impressed chiefly by the courage of the rider and by how splendid it was that somebody should have ridden in there and raised all that ruckus.

Fact or Fiction

It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.

Our Choice

I may presently change, not only by chance, but also by intention.

Searching and Seeing

And then one Sunday afternoon I wandered out along the Desplaines river
And I saw a crowd of Hungarians under the trees with their women and children and a keg of beer and an accordian.

And if?

Sir, if a man has experienced the inexpressible, he is under no obligation to attempt to express it.

In a Moment

"I will answer the second question first," he said, "--but bless me! this is a splendid place for smoke rings!"

The Heart of A Tale

Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.

Mutual Need

Without creative personalities able to think and judge independently, the upward development of society is as unthinkable as the development of the individual personality without the nourishing soil of the community.

In Unexpected Places

Imagination governs the world.

An Author's Hope

Finally, to the real people who lived this tale, I trust we have done them, their heirs, and their spirits justice.

From Your Perspective

If you're a surfer, a trucker, a high school dropout, or an eccentric retiree, then you've got an edge already.

Engage

All the valley is dancing
Together under the sun,
And the heart of him who joins us not
Is turned to dust, to dust.

Horizons

The trek from the snow plains of Liska to the summit of the Ice Crystal Pyramids of Sastantua is long and grueling, even with jet skis and a team of Syneca Snowhounds, but the view from the top, a view which takes in the Stin Glacier Fields, the shimmering Prism Mountains and the far ethereal dancing icelights, is one which first freezes the mind and then slowly releases it to hitherto unexperienced horizons of beauty, and Trillian, for one, felt that she could do with a bit of having her mind slowly released to hitherto unexperienced horizons of beauty.

Is and Can Be

Only our fear-driven egos use judgments to protect us--protection that ironically prevents us from self-realization.

Onto the Gran Via

"Isn't it pretty to think so?"

Perception and Reality

The world as you see it right here, right now, is reality, regardless of what the scientists say it might be.