Quotes about Words

As my Buddhist teachers have shown me, wisdom emerges in the space around words as much as from language itself.

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well.  I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new. 

Neither God nor Being nor any other word can define or explain the ineffable reality behind the word, so the only important question is whether the word is a help or a hindrance in enabling you to experience That toward which it points.

Cetseva is a female nobility of character, an art form emphasizing strength, endurance, intricate persistance, inclusiveness, fluidity, emotional intelligence, sacrifice, nuance, and grace.

Living wisdom cannot be confined within words, but it can be hinted at through situations, much as a specific feature of an otherwise undistinguished landscape can often be discerned by following the path projected by a pointing finger. "Them that have ears, let them hear," said Jesus; whoever "hears" the inner import of words will be able to "see" their inward meaning.

Reading well makes children more interesting both to themselves and others, a process in which they will develop a sense of being separate and distinct selves.

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,

And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.

I've heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.

A word is dead
When it is said,
   Some say,
I say it just
Begins to live
   That day.

Unless we know people well, we sit around with our words and our minds starched, afraid of being ourselves for fear of wrinkling them.

When man was determined to destroy himself he picked the was of shall and finding only why smashed it into because.

There's no difference between lyrics and poetry.  Words are words.  The only difference is the people who are in academic positions and call themselves poets and have an academic stance.  They've got something to lose if they say it's all poetry; if there's not music to it, and you have to wear a certain kind of checkered shirt or something like that.  It's all the same.  Lyrics are lyrics, poetry is poetry, lyrics are poetry, and poetry is lyrics.  They are interchangeable to me.

Self-discovery in songwriting, bringing something forth that's instructive to yourself - some of the best songs that you will ever write are the ones where you didn't have to think about any of that stuff, but nonetheless that's what's happening in the song.

I fear I have not one good word to say this fair morning, though the sun shines so encouragingly on the distant hills and gentle river and the trees are in their festive hues.  I am not festive, though contented.  When obliged to give myself to the prose of life, as I am on this occasion of being established in a new home I like to do the thing, wholly and quite, - to weave my web for the day solely from the grey yarn.

The reason why it hurts when you fall and hits the ground, it's because the ground hits back.

Khoa Nhut Nguyen.

A way that can be named
is not the way. Each word reflects
the Spirit which can't be named. Each word
a gift, its value in exact proportion
to the spirit in which it is given.
Thus spoken, these words I give
by way of Lao Tzu's old Chinese, stolen
by a humbe thief twenty-five centuries later.

The more you know, the less you explain.

You do not win big by betting on a sure winner, because the odds are always low on a sure winner.

The most successful politicians could have an outstanding career in Hollywood if they want to.

The condition of love is honesty.

Nothing comes before and after all.


Khoa Nhut Nguyen.

AUTONOMOUS NURTURING.  Not waiting for someone to give you what you can give yourself.

The more you know, the less you need to explain.

Khoa Nhut Nguyen.

A master of words is like the wind, which only speaks in silence.

Khoa Nhut Nguyen.

Wisdom and intelligence is far from the same, intelligence thinks for itself while wisdom thinks for all.

To be enlighten is too original, if you want to be original you must set your own footsteps and never follows others, you can never be original and only a copy if you follows the footsteps of others.

Khoa Nhut Nguyen.

The words you use to describe others also shape their perception of you.

There is both a legal and illegal way to steal people's money, without it can be notified as theft, the illegal is called protection money and the legal is called the taxes.

Khoa Nhut Nguyen.

Isn't that how it is with words and beliefs?  They're only useful when you don't need them.  They're not like me...here I am.

Words are clamor-filled shells. There's many a story in the miniature of a single word!

She hated saying yes.  She was of those people for whom yes is always an admission of guilt or failure.  No was power.

I say only, but what does that mean?

Absolutely truth is absolutely  lie.

Khoa Nhut Nguyen.

The closest road to heaven is through hell.

Khoa Nhut Khoa.

Unconditionel love comes out of a broken heart, that has been healed.

Khoa Nhut Nguyen.

A true mystic is allways nameless, because there is no mystery in a name that is known.

Khoa Nhut Nguyen.