“What is my life worth, my time worth,
my well-being worth? What will I
give it up for, at what price?
Truly, what good is it to gain everything,
whether money and possessions,
knowledge and power,
fame and influence,
likes and followers,
or anything the outside world
has to offer you? Is it not temporal?
Is it worth losing your mind and your well-being?”
Source: Tired Wonder: Beginnings and Endings
“Maybe she didn’t do something big. Maybe she just told someone something.”
Frank looked over at me, more serious now. “Like what?”
I shrugged. “Something they’d been needing to hear,” I said. I thought it over for a moment, then added, “I don’t think you have to do something so big to be brave. And it’s the little things that are harder anyway.”
Source: Since You've Been Gone
“Anyone else would have probably stayed put---or at least looked deeply uncomfortable, but Frank seemed like he was taking this in stride, like helping to reunite friends was just a normal thing he did.”
Source: Since You've Been Gone
“I realized there was a piece of me that had been waiting for this to happen ever since we'd become friends - the moment when Sloane would realize I wasn't cool enough, or daring enough, to be her best friend.”
Source: Since You've Been Gone
“You're so scared of things sometimes, and for no reason," Sloane said, her voice quieter. "And sometimes, I wish..." She didn't finish the sentence, just let it hang in the car between us.
I wished it too - whatever it was that in that moment Sloane wanted me to be, that I was falling short of.”
Source: Since You've Been Gone
“Bill arrives with a grin about something. Sure, he's got some jets for my machine and knows right were they are. I'll have to wait a second though. He's got to close a deal out in back on some Harley parts. I go with him out in a shed in back and see he is selling a whole Harley machine in used parts, except for the frame, which the customer already has. He is selling them all for $125. Not a bad price at all.
Coming back I comment, "He'll know something about motorcycles before he gets those together."
Bill laughs. "And that's the best way to learn, too.”
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
“...the land is moody, waiting.
Den turns around and looks at his father who leans into the bike, leans into a long drag on his cigarette, leans into a thought not ready for words. The man is so familiar. They should be at home by now. They should be sitting at the dinner table. This familiarity is deeper than the desert, longer than the miles they’ve traveled. It confuses Dennis.
What is the source of this sadness?
It’s time to go home. Den holds the camera steady.”
Source: Virga in Death Valley
“The soul itself is the center of all that we have come to call 'psychic.' The word itself translates literally to mean "of the soul." When we embrace our psychic potential, we embrace our soul's potential.”
Source: Psy-Workshop
“When we embrace our Intuition, be embrace a new way of living...The intuitive process is an adventure. There are new discoveries around every corner, and we always have the power to change our lives.”
Source: The Psychic Workshop: A Complete Program for Fulfilling Your Spiritual Potential
“Sometimes, people are not alone because they like to be alone. They are alone because no one likes to be with them.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote