Tactile Son

"There are two cathedrals given to man at birth. The first is his body, the second his soul. Both need tending to be whole. The path between these two cathedrals is where the night animals live. This duality illustrates our very core, a gift from our angelic ancestors and our primordial mothers. It is because of this that man often seems stretched so thin. We are in constant battle between these two vital forces, that is to say our spirituality and our very human nature. It is in our most base and bare instincts that we experience emotion in which we find our inspiration. Yet it is only from our aspirations toward the divine that we forge those ideas into reality. This balance is an eternal struggle, but it is necessary that we must pray in both cathedrals. And so we trod lightly upon the path between, and are wary of the night animals therein."
- David Michael Lemoine, May Day '04

Favourite literary quotes:
"True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics."
- Yevgeny Zamyatin

"Be patient and strong for someday this pain will be useful to you."
- Ovid
           
“Love without courage and wisdom is sentimentality, as with the ordinary church member. Courage without love and wisdom is foolhardiness, as with the ordinary soldier. Wisdom without love and courage is cowardice, as with the ordinary intellectual. Therefore one who has love, courage and wisdom is one in a million who moves the world, as with Jesus, Buddha and Gandhi."
- Ammon Hennacy

"Life is a horizontal fall."
- Jean Cocteau

"Remember... no amount of instruction can ever take the place of the wallop in the old right hand. So make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. For Christ's sake, don't           freeze up."
- Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again
          
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
- Mark Twain

"The pioneers of a warless world are the young men and women who refuse military service"
- Albert Einstein.

"But seek alone to hear the strange things said by God to the bright hearts of those long dead, and learn to chaunt a tongue men do not know."
- W.B. Yeats, To The Rose Upon The Road Of Time
 
"God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny."
- Garrison Keillor

"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."
- Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island

"Those who are the butts of ridicule. Those who carry inside them the drop of eternity necessary to life. Those who've never recognized their own limitations. Whenever they travel on the road that's bounded up by heaven alone, and bend their heads a bit, stars get all tangled up in their hair."
- Pierre Reverdy

"I don't believe we go to Heaven, I believe we become Heaven."
- Martin Sheen

"The sun went in behind some clouds and left us to our jaded thoughts and the crumbs of our provisions."
- James Joyce, An Encounter

“All we need do is to voice these two petitions: Dear Lord, illumine my intellect to see the Truth, and give me the strength to follow it.”
- Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

"Only if your life isn't full of miracles can you see the real miracle."
- Anton LaVey