“I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope, if you ramble off... As my friend Julius Lester says, A picture book is the essence of an experience.” IfsWritingI CanBookWalkingMy FriendsEssencePicture BooksJulius Author:Patricia MacLachlan
“My helpless friend, your helplessness is the most powerful plea which rises up to the tender father-heart of God. You think that everything is closed to you because you cannot pray. My friend, your helplessness is the very essence of prayer.” ThinkingHeartFatherPrayerPowerfulFriendsPrayingMy FriendsEssenceMost PowerfulHelplessHelplessness Book:Prayer Source: Prayer
“There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere.” BelieveI BelieveKnowledgeMy FriendsEssenceI Believe InSiddharthaAtman Book:Siddhartha: An Indian Tale Source: Siddhartha: An Indian Tale
“My friends are me and in essence better than me, they help me be better even when they don't know it.” KnowsHelpingMy FriendsEssenceHelp Me Author:Aeriel Miranda
“There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge-that is everywhere, that is Atman, that is in me and you and in every creature, and I am beginning to believe that this knowledge has no worse enemy than the man of knowledge, than learning.” MenBelieveI BelieveEnemyCreaturesMy FriendsEssenceI Believe InSiddharthaAtman Book:Siddhartha: An Indian Tale Source: Siddhartha: An Indian Tale
“What can I do my friends, if I do not know? I am neither Christian nor Jew, nor Muslim nor Hindu. What can I do? What can I do? Not of the East, nor of the West, Nor of the land, nor of the sea, Not of nature's essence, nor of circling heavens. What could I be?” IfsKnowsChristianHeavenSeaLandMy FriendsEssenceWestJewEast Author:Rumi