The power of nature exists in its silence. Human words cannot encode the meaning because human language has access only to the shadow of meaning.

As long as we are not ourselves, we will try to be what other people are.

Healing comes when the individual remembers his or her identity—the purpose chosen in the world of ancestral wisdom—and reconnects with that world of Spirit.

One can say, 'Teach me what you know,' but the better request is, 'Teach me about what teaches you.'

The spiritual thirst that is latent in everybody can never come to a place of fulfillment unless people begin to think of each other as potential brothers and sisters.

Our souls do not like stagnation. Our souls aspire toward growth, that is, toward remembering all that we have forgotten due to our trip to this place, the earth.

Education without the knowledge of the Holy One is the darkest doom.

Everyone dies. It is how one lives that matters.

I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.

Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.

A strong wind was blowing and it felt really very cold and seemed so unfamiliar and bizarre. But the trees remembered me. They bowed gently in the breeze…and called me nearer, welcoming me.

The sensory deprivation chamber has been the most important tool that I've ever used for developing my mind

If you are writing any book about the end of the world, what you are really writing about is what's worth saving about it.

Some automatic device clicked in her big brain, and her knees felt weak, and there was a chilly feeling in her stomach. She was in love with this man. They don't make memories like that anymore

New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city.

I've got such effeminate hands. I could never be strong. Whenever I even got to a save, my fingers would just bend back and the ball would hit me in the face.