Having chosen this foolishness, I was a free being. How could the world ever stop me, how could I betray myself, if I was not afraid?

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.

At a certain point, you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. Now I will stop and be wholly attentive. You empty yourself and wait, listening.

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.

Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.

According to Inuit culture in Greenland, a person possesses six or seven souls. The souls take the form of tiny people scattered throughout the body.

The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.

I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.

The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.

The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of the human race than the discovery of a star.

Dream: Defying Reality Expecting A Miracle! Dare to dream!

Such is my curse, Branwyn O'Tyre. Every woman I touch is forced to lavish her affections upon me.

The material world has only been constructed at the price of taking the self, that is, mind, out of it, removing it; mind is not part of it...

Man wishes woman to be peaceable, but in fact she is essentially warlike, like the cat.

I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home.

When a man works by faith, he works by mental exertion instead of by physical force.

People mature at different stages and I feel I'm learning a lot.

I miss my mother very, very much.

The frontal cortex is an incredibly interesting part of the brain - ours is proportionately bigger and/or more complex than in any other species.