Live. For Now. For the time being.

The past is weird. I mean, does it really exist ? It feels like it exists, but where is it ? And if it did exists, but doesn’t now, then where did it go ?

An unfinished book. left unattended, turns feral, and she would need all her focus, will and ruthless determination to tame it again.

Zazen is better than a home. Zazen is a home that you can't ever lose.

In my heart, I am American, and I believe I have a free will and can take charge of my own destiny.

By changing our history and our memory, they try to erase all our shame.

We're by-products of the mid-twentieth century", Oliver said. "Who isn't?

Patience was part of his nature, and he accepted his lot as a short-lived mammal, scurrying in and out amid the roots of the giants.

True freedom comes from being unknown.

There's so much to write. Where should I start?I texted my old Jiko this question, and she wrote me back this:'You should start where you are

For the time beingWords scatterAre they fallen leaves?

Awake my soul and my spirit.

Most people think that if you do not love yourself fully, no one else will. That is not true. People are perfectly capable of giving love even if they feel less confident about themselves.

Masters of flight don't learn to fly because of all that helped them, they learnt to fly, despite all that tried to stop them.

It is very rarely that a middle-aged man finds an author who gives him, what he knew so often in his teens and twenties, the sense of having opened a new door.

I find that it's nice to work with somebody and spin off on someone else's feelings. You get a little jaded by yourself.

An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.

There's this resistance to actually talking to people who are smarter than you about things and I don't know why that is.

Ronald Reagan knew who he was. Barack Obama is still working through that equation politically.

Live a sincere life; be natural, and be honest with yourself.

My head is filled with so much crap, or facts that I find important, but that some others don't.