The body is a universe in itself and must be held as sacred as anything in creation....It is dangerous to forget the body as sacramental.

We are all jellyfish, too pitiful and too afraid of being disliked to be honest.

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers.

What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.

The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of room, not try to be or do anything whatever.

There are some griefs so loud/They could bring down the sky/And there are griefs so still/None knows how deep they lie.

A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.

It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.

A dead man is the worst enemy alive, I thought. You can't alter his power over you. You can't alter what you love or owe. And it's too late to ask him for his absolution. He has beaten you all ways.

Just as there is no such thing as Christian physics or Muslim Algebra, we will see tht there is no such thing as Christian or Muslim morality.

to succeed at anything, you must want it very much. Desire must be in evidence in order to attract

And so we carried on in our little piece of forever.

I was only sitting here in my white study with the awful black words pushing me around.

In a distant age and climate, the tragic scene of the death of Hosein will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader.

If you're a gardener you don't need a gym. [...] You're always carrying large sacks of manure all over.

In the desert you celebrate nothing but water.

If you want to make the best of yourself you don't necessarily need to diet - you need to wear the right stuff.

The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real.