I don't have children - yet! But I can imagine a love so potent that you would give your life for them. To give your life over to something else outside of you, that's love.

It's terrible to lose your brain and your power to be conscious or in the moment.

To give your life over to something else outside of you, that's love.

I remember facts are just facts, circumstances are merely circumstances.

"When in your life were you the most challenged?" I love to hear stories of adversity and how people overcome them.

You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.

Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness.

On the other side of the spirit veil, I spend more than a little bit of time researching the hallucinogens. I personally believe ayahuasca is also the greatest natural healing agent, period.

anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart.

My poems, I think, exist in a state of tension between the love of natural beauty and the fear of natural meaninglessness or absurdity.

People often avoid making decisions out of fear of making a mistake. Actually the failure to make decisions is one of life's biggest mistakes.

On this ancient and miraculous world, where such beautiful natural and living things have evolved, something has gone wrong when life itself is used as a manufacturing process.

We are born to love, we live to love, and we will die to love still more.

Everything was quiet, a strange sort of quiet that felt like an unfinished sentence.

Have a purpose in life, and having it, throw into your work such strength of mind and muscle as God has given you.