I could very calmly go wild.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour and with that one, is what we are doing.
Experiencing the present purely is being emptied and hollow; you catch the grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.
The dedicated life is the life worth living.
We are here to witness the creation and to abet it.
This hospital, like every other, is a hole in the universe through which holiness issues in blasts. It blows both ways, in and out of time.
The secret of seeing is to sail on solar wind.
The point of going somewhere like the Napo River in Ecuador is not to see the most spectacular anything. It is simply to see what is there.
I am a sacrifice bound with cords to the horns of the world's rock altar, waiting for worms. I take a deep breath, I open my eyes. Looking, I see there are worms in the horns of the altar like live ma...
I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs.
For as long as I could remember, I had been transparent to myself, unselfconscious, learning, doing, most of every day. Now I was in my own way; I myself was a dark object I could not ignore. I couldn...
You can't test courage cautiously.
We still & always want waking.
The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside by a generous hand. But- and this is the point- who gets excited by a mere penny? But if you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplici...
The sense impressions of one-celled animals are not edited for the brain: ‘This is philosophically interesting in a rather mournful way, since it means that only the simplest animals perceive the univ...
The lenses of telescopes and cameras can no more cover the breadth and scale of the visual array than language can cover the breadth and simultaneity of internal experience.
The gaps are the thing. The gaps are the spirit's one home, the altitudes and latitudes so dazzlingly spare and clean that the spirit can discover itself like a once-blind man unbound. The gaps are th...
She is nine, beloved, as open-faced as the sky and as self-contained. I have watched her grow. As recently as three or four years ago, she had a young child's perfectly shallow receptiveness; she fitt...
Say you could view a time lapse film of our planet: what would you see? Transparent images moving through light, an infinite storm of beauty.The beginning is swaddled in mists, blasted by random blind...
If the sore spot is not fatal, if it does not grow and block something, you can use its power for many years, until the heart resorbs it.