To exist as an individual means not simply to be numerically distinct from other things but to be a self-pole in a dynamic relationship with alterity, with what is other, with the world.

The organism's environment is the sense it makes of the world. This environment is a place of significance and valence, as a result of the global action of the organism.

Something acquires meaning for an organism to the extent that it relates (either positively or negatively) to the norm of the maintenance of the organism's integrity.

There is something deep within us that sobs at endings. Why, God, does everything have to end? Why does all nature grow old? Why do spring and summer have to go?

A Sufi is alive to the value of time, and is given, every moment, to what that moment demands.

The abundance of small things, it'll bury you.

A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.

Get the action habit - you do not need to wait until conditions are perfect.

The love ofChrist is my prayer-book

I've been a military lawyer for 33 years. A member of al Qaeda or their affiliate group can be detained under a law of war as long as their threat to our nation without a trial.

Photographers find themselves directly in competition with mass media's misrepresentations of women. So the photographic terrain is particularly contested from a political point of view.

The scent of the morning is prepared by the night; the scent of the night is prepared by the day; everything helps everything!

Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.