“And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.”

“... ongoing care for the soul rather than seek for a cure appreciates the mystery of human suffering and does not offer the illusion of a problem-free life.I sees every fall into ignorance and confusion as an opportunity to discover that the beast residing at the center of the labyrinth is also an angel.To approach this paradoxial point of tension where adjustment and abnormality meet is to move closer to the realization of our mystery-filled, star-born nature.It is a beast this thing that stirs in the core of our being, but it is also the star of our innermost nature.We have to care for this suffering with extreme reverence so that in our fear and anger at the beast, we do not overlock the star.~Thomas Moore *Care of the Soul*”

“Came but for friendship, and took away love.”

“From plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odour to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.”

“Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.”

“A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.”

“It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.”

“And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.”

“Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.”

“Soul appears when we make room for it.”

“It's important to be heroic ambitious productive efficient creative and progressive but these qualities don't necessarily nurture the soul. The soul has different concerns of equal value: downtime for reflection conversation and reverie beauty that is captivating and pleasuring relatedness to the environs and to people and any animal's rhythm of rest and activity.”