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"Words are the fallen ruins of silent majesty."
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"What's the point of using words nobody knows or can say comfortably?"

"I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us toward ultimate reality."

"They spoke in semaphore, all punctuation unnecessary.'You?'Great.They'd trimmed the language to its essentials. Before long it would just be consonants. Then silence."

"Language is the gateway of the mind and a bridge that connects us to other human beings. Language enables a person to share their clandestine inner world with other human beings and to learn about other people's mysterious world of logical thoughts and poetic sentiments."

"Words are not cubicles for truth telling. Words do not allow us to touch the face of God or define the contours of the soul. Words are imprecise and cannot capture all aspects of reality or replicate all facets of a person's emotional mA©lange. Language allows for limited explorations of reality and minimal probing of the human mind. I accept that the only possible relation between language and the world is the image displayed in each person's head by the picture invoking ability of language. Select word pictures might accurately portray what I perceive and still be vague, blatantly inaccurate, completely meaningless, misleading, distorted, or incomprehensible in other persons' minds."

"One should always cite what one does not understand at all in the language one understands the least."

"I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language."
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"Fear is the greatest enemy; the father of all suffering, and love is the only cure for humanity's great afflictions."

"In so many ways we are still in the dark ages, but there is light appearing over the horizon of choice and consciousness."

"Our minds of infinite possibilities have been plowed, seeded and cultivated by every word, institution and sacred belief we hold dear, to produce a foul harvest of exclusion, apathy, brute domination and death."

"In a stress pressure-cooker like America, I believe we will see more and more shooting massacres. Violence is in our cultural DNA."

"It is essential that you follow your own idea of passion, even if to others it looks like suffering."

"Only the frantic of fear can harm you. Your calm and centered self knows exactly what to do."

"Through forgiveness you can be free of the tragedies and pain in other people's failures."
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