Humility before the flower at the timber line is the gate which gives access to the path up the open fell.

Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

The light died in the low clouds. Falling snow drank in the dusk. Shrouded in silence, the branches wrapped me in their peace. When the boundaries were erased, once again the wonder: that *I* exist.

Better than other people.' Sometimes he says: 'That, at least, you are.' But more often: 'Why should you be? Either you are what you can be, or you are not - like other people.

You wake from dreams of doom and--for a moment--you know: beyond all the noise and the gestures, the only real thing, love's calm unwavering flame in the half-light of an early dawn.

Like the bee, we distill poison from honey for our self-defense--what happens to the bee if it uses its sting is well known.

Acts of violence-- Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death--and the meaninglessness of killing.

He is one of those who has had the wilderness for a pillow, and called a star his brother. Alone. But loneliness can be a communion.

Trees quiver in the wind, sailing on a sea of mistout of earshot.

This accidentalmeeting of possibilitiescalls itself I.I ask: what am I doing here?And, at once, this Ibecomes unreal.

His moral lectureblazed with hate.What could have driven a child that far?

Light has no value if there is no darkness.

Fear only has power when I cower under the illusion.

Everything breaks down but desire. And because we are old, doctors try to shame that out of us. Young punks! Lose one's youth, and doctors take it as axiomatic that you've lost your mind, your balls.

To lose your own language was like forgetting your mother, and as sad, in a way.

Work ... has always been my favorite form of recreation.

When I was young, I kept trying to be in the most helpful place for me, when sometimes, as players, you have to look in the mirror and say, "It's not always going to be comfortable."

The ideal of progress, freedom of thought, and the decline of ecclesiastical power go together.

From an early age I was told that I was expected to do more than continue to run a small business. Education was important and seen as a way of moving forward.

It's not as if I can just pop on my show and be rude if I've had a hard day.

We're all buddhas. We just don't recognize it.