"If I had to write a poem to end all poems,
it would be the word ‘lonely’
in every language."

~ Caitlyn Siehl

"The choice isn’t between religion and the secular world, as it is now — the challenge is to learn from religions so we can fill the secular world with replacements for the things we long ago made up religion to provide. The challenge begins here."

~ Alain de Botton

"It is a strange and wonderful fact to be here, walking around in a body, to have a whole world within you and a world at your fingertips outside you. It is an immense privilege, and it is incredible that humans manage to forget the miracle of being here."

~ John O'Donohue

Inside everyone
is a great shout of joy
waiting to be born.

~ David Whyte

"Creation seems to come out of imperfection. It seems to come out of a striving and a frustration. And this is where I think language came from."

"The serene isolation that can be felt in a crowded and often chaotic world." ~ Genevieve

Barron Storey talked to Temple of Art about what he does as an artist in the face of failure. This is the result.

"Movies are the most powerful empathy machine in all the arts. When I go to a great movie I can live somebody else's life for a while. I can walk in somebody else's shoes. I can see what it feels like to be a member of a different gender, a different race, a different economic class, to live in a different time, to have a different belief."~ Roger Ebert

"There's a thing when we're children we experience. It usually exists in libraries and it's called the hush. Like this magic world called Hush. There's not many places now to find hush. Somethimes I really do think if every person would experience hush—even if they almost have to force it on themselves for a while—just the bird, just the wind, nothing else, hush—there would be less violence."