Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation.

If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.

We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny.

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.

A boundary is not that at which something stops, but that from which something begins.

A person is neither a thing nor a process but an opening through which the Absolute can manifest.

Dwelling is not primarily inhabiting but taking care of and creating that space within which something comes into its own and flourishes.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Nothing is everything that doesn't happen at this very moment.

Everyone is the other and no one is himself.

Questioning is the piety of thought.

If my decision is wrong, at least I will have learned something new. There is always next time.

You can get what you want or you can just get old.

The miracle of love comes to you in the presence of the uninterpreted moment. If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life.

It's a life-changing thing to be in a position of needing help and being so lucky as to get it.

I was always the last one chosen for football games in Central Park.

I can go on and on. In the Appalachians. I fed the poorest part of this nation for years coming up at Christmas.

A woman has a responsibility and a privilege that a man doesnt have of given birth to another human being.

Coleridge wrote, "Dreams are no shadows, but the very substances and calamities of my life.

A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment.