I would like to live. . . open to time and death painlessly, noticing everything, remembering nothing, choosing the given with a fierce and pointed will.

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.

Instead of thinking 'law of attraction', think 'unlimited abundance'.

I am really looking forward to driving another of my father's car at the show in Rotterdam.

When the doorbell rings at three in the morning, it's never good news.

I'm not passive aggressive. If something bothers me, I think about it, then I act on it. I express it.

A reciprocal of a fraction is found by flipping it upside down. If you want the reciprocal of a mixed number or a whole number, just convert it to an improper fraction, and then flip it!

Smile, breathe, and go slowly. Thich Nhat Hanh Don't try to steer the river.

We do not prescribe any prayer; we welcome all prayer.

The blade itself incites to deeds of violence.

Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.

There's so much to be found in literature, especially if you don't have the money to travel or the means to get out of your neighborhood or get off work.