The mind wants the world to return its love, or its awareness; the mind wants to know all the world, and all eternity, and God.

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.

Nobody objected to live in prisonif already felt comfortable living in it.

The willing, Destiny guides them. The unwilling, Destiny drags them.

I don't believe in fear - I live my life without regrets.

It has pleased God that divine verities should not enter the heart through the understanding, but the understanding through the heart.

When you have no money, you need invention.

It's always easier in the Senate minority to maintain unity.

There is an ancient legend which warns that, should we ever learn our true origin, our universe will instantly be destroyed.

A lot of the stuff that my father told me not to do, I did it anyway and I ended up learning the hard way.

Live in the present. The past is gone; the future is unknown - but the present is real, and your opportunities are now.

With the exception of the military industrial complex, we all want a more peaceful world.