Amy Joy

“Poetry is the language of the gods.”
― Charles Upton, What Poets Used to Know: Poetics • Mythopoesis • Metaphysics

“Circumstances do not shape us so much as they reveal us.”
― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

“Simon and Garfunkel sang, back in the 1960’s, in these days “the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls.”)”
― Charles Upton, What Poets Used to Know: Poetics • Mythopoesis • Metaphysics

“A human being is a part of the whole, called by us ‘Universe,’ a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. The striving to free oneself from this delusion is the one issue of true religion.” ~ Albert Einstein”
― Benjamin Riggs, Finding God in the Body: A Spiritual Path for the Modern West