Quote Gallery: Original Aphorisms & Quotes
As an artist, writer, and creator, I have always been drawn to the combination of words and images.
Long before social media, I collected meaningful quotes, photographs, paintings, passages from books, and small observations about life, arranging them in a scrapbook-like fashion. They filled my walls and hallways, the pages of my books, and treasure boxes I would revisit whenever inspiration ran low.
I recently began creating a few of my own. Many of these quotes originated in my published books, Two Seconds of Eternity and Poetry Dust. Others are stand-alone reflections inspired by the subjects that most often find their way into my mind: time, meaning, consciousness, creativity, love, human nature, and the experience of being alive.
Below you will find a small growing collection of original quotes and aphorisms. All are pieces of larger conversations that continue to unfold in my Philosophical Greenhouse.
 Change within Form"To exist at all is to participate in continuous transformation." |  Mind Garden"If imagination must go to work in my mind, let it work for me." |  Architecture of Form“Only here, within form, can singularity be experienced or known at all, for beyond form there can be no division.” |
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 Duality"We are the eyes through which creation witnesses itself." |  |  Our Connected lives"Each of us a gear that turns another, even as another turns us." |
 Daily Motto"There is no better body than the one I am in and no life to master but mine." |  On Perspective & Humility,"There but by a Turn of Life Go I" |  Connection & the Human Experience"We are each like a grain of sand, thinking we are not the shore." |
 On Bearing Reality"Everywhere I turn, life breaks my heart. And just when I think I need a stronger one, life rebuilds it no less tender." |  Time"I am here now. And no matter when you read this, so are you." |  Love"This much remains: We come from love, and we return to love to a fullness that needs no name, and yet fills all the space of what we are." |
 Philosophical Greenhouse"Each of us enters life filled with the earth of a dormant garden, holding within us the seeds of every possibility, and what one waters, grows." |  Seeing the Positive"All the things life has brought to me have been good- except for those that were bad. And I am starting to see the good in those. |  Hate"The habit of hate is spreading like venom in a polarized world, pushing us to pick sides and label everything. Yet hate is hate, no matter whom you hate. I do not wish for that to fester in me and become one of my life accumulations and habits." |