No one can help you if you're stuck in a work. Only you can figure a way out, because only you can see the work's possibilities.

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.

Whenever I think of something but can't think of what it was I was thinking of, I can't stop thinking until I think I'm thinking of it again. I think I think too much.

Was it still paranoia if all his fears were justified?

Your tears for others will float you closer toward God.

In times of great darkness, courage lights the way home.

Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book.

Jesus ruined every funeral he attended including his own.

Imagine Jon Stewart if he gave a damn. He's like Howard Zinn after 12 beers.

The real demon is success-the anxieties engendered by this quest are relentless, degrading, corroding. What is worse, there is no end to this escalation of desire.

You fool! You're 30 cents away from having a quarter!

Shower your unconditional love even if it might be a stranger