Poetry is a way to voice feelings without losing them.

We get our names from naming what we love.

There are two kinds of folk, ones that see the ruby, and ones that see the dust.

So I allowed love to undo me. And although it did not keep me, my feet became softer to walk its hallowed grounds.

We weave lies into blankets in the coldest nights, hoping to dream of truth.

The alienation of the worker from the product of one’s labour is not, in its essence, alienation of human from matter, rather it is the alienation of human from spirit invested in the creation of produced matter.

After a while, you forget the words, all you remember is their presence.

The ignorant is unfortunate, but based in reality. People really don’t know, and don’t care. The pseudointellectual is unfortunate, and based on fantasy. People think they know, and pretend they care.

Fragility requires shelter.

Everything in politeness that is not kindness is either admin or hypocrisy.

If it starts as a breeze, and ends as a storm, it had always been the storm.

Operational options: slave to a lie, or servant of the truth?

If a stone is immovable, know there is rot underneath that stone. When exposed, it becomes dangerous. But visible.

Its trajectory is the key to its intention.

Find calm in the abyss.

It travels the speed of your thoughts.

Our breath is our willingness to learn.

If you accelerate, know what you are rushing towards.

Kindness is the new revolution.

It breaks where there is a fault line. Never forget that fault line.

Trust your own compass, yet perceive its habitual distortions.

If your wheel has a flower in it, you’ve got it made.

There are only a few fights in life which must be fought, the rest are all vanity.

On being designed for emergencies.

Pay attention how they treat you when you are weak, not when you are strong.

Once you see the demon’s face you will always recognise its mask.

When people know they hold some power over you, then you see who they really are.

It takes ten thousand years for a dragon to lay an egg. But then, it gives birth to a Universe.

The difference between a spiral and a circle is movement.

The only thing I expect from a friend is to not be my enemy.

Writing well has to do with what we are willing to give.

Once a lie catches fire, who’s going to run in for the truth?

Sometimes, better get out of the river for a while. No point battling a reptilian brain.

Don’t crawl out of the hole they dug you into. Fly out.

No one can fairly judge someone they are envious of.

Landing is the hardest part.

So much in our lives depends on just a few words at the right time.

A broken heart reminds us of what is most precious.

Our psyche is a co-production.

People who gossip about you are not concerned about you. A smeared reputation is counterproductive to your well-being.

In the end, the greatest regret we have is not trusting ourselves with our own lives.

Everything changes, except who we truly are.

Remember everything you are.

Overcome being dissected by prosaic minds by making it too simple for them.