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“Don't only learn from the rich and successful men, also learn from the poor and those that failed woefully, for in their failures lies the secret of success as well.”

“Never forget a man who weathered and rescued you from the storm just because you can see the shores.”

“Don't cheat the foundation of a house because you want to save for the roofing for at the end, you will have only roofed rubbles.”

“Don't sell the warmer for an air conditioner just because its summer, for in winter, you will have to do the reverse.”

“When you left you left behind a field of silent flowers under a sky full of unstirred clouds...you left a million butterflies mid-silky flutters You left like midnight rain against my dreaming ears Oh and how you left leaving my coffee scentless and my couch comfortless leaving upon my fingers the melting snow of you you left behind a calendar full of empty days and seasons full of aimless wanders leaving me alone with an armful of sunsets your reflection behind in every puddle your whispers upon every curtain your fragrance inside every petal you left your echoes in between the silence of my eyes Oh and how you left leaving my sands footless and my shores songless leaving me with windows full of moistened moonlight nights and nights of only a half-warmed soul and when you left... you left behind a lifetime of moments untouched the light of a million stars unshed and when you left you somehow left my poem...unfinished. (Published in Taj Mahal Review Vol.11 Number 1 June 2012)”

“Where are you from exactly?” he asked his state-based colleague, after exchanging first pleasantries. “Gulf Shores.” Paul replied. “I know we’re at the Gulf shore,” Garry said. “But where exactly?” “Gulf Shores is a place.” “Where’s Gulf Shores?” Garry went on with questioning, feeling increasingly silly. “Baldwin County.” “Where’s Baldwin County?”

“To meditate is to sail a course, to navigate, among problems many of which we are in the process of clearing up. After each one looms another, whose shores are even more attractive, more suggestive. Certainly, it requires strength and perseverance to get to windward of problems, but there is no greater delight than to reach new shores, and even to sail, as Camoëns says, “through seas that keel has never cut before.” If you will now open a bank-account of attention for me, I foretell sun-smitten landscapes and promise archipelagoes.”

“Change versus Transformation-- Change comes when something new just begins...but Transformation comes after an upheaval that tragically alters your life when something or someone you hold close is taken away from you..and you either turn bitter or are called to be transformed in your deep... Transformation comes when uprooted inside..you either drown in the sea or swim hard to make it to the shores...The drive to reach the shores makes you transform in your depths.... However, transformation is accompanied by change but change is not always accompanied by transformation....Transformation comes out of a moral impulse but change is unrelated to anything moral...”