We like to assume that language is a purely human property, our exclusive possession, and that everything else is basically mute.

Other animals, in a constant and mostly unmediated relation with their sensory surroundings, think with the whole of their bodies.

Breathing involves a continual oscillation between exhaling and inhaling, offering ourselves to the world at one moment and drawing the world into ourselves at the next.

Humans are tuned for relationship. The eyes, the skin, the tongue, ears, and nostrils-all are gates where our body receives the nourishment of otherness.

We are human only in contact, and conviviality, with what is not human.

Sensory perception is the silken web that binds our separate nervous systems into the encompassing ecosystem.

Only by affirming the animateness of perceived things do we allow our words to emerge directly from the depths of our ongoing reciprocity with the world.

The world we experience with our unaided senses is fluid and animate, shifting and transforming in response to our own shifts of position and of mood.

What we say has such a profound influence upon what we see, and hear, and taste of the world!

Breathing involves a continual oscillation between exhaling and inhaling, offering ourselves to the world at one moment and drawing the world into ourselves at the next...

School fools a lot of people. Professionally, one thing is not the most that one person can be.

The living blind and seeing Dead together lie As if in love . . . There was no more hating then, And no more love; Gone is the heart of Man.

Without discretion, people may be overlaid with unreasonable affection, and choked with too much nourishment.

A democracy in the Middle East must be more than a democracy in name only - it must live out its principles.

I love stage actors. The pool of world class actors that have done theater [is big], there's a higher opportunity of grabbing somebody from that pool.

Men are cruel, but Man is kind.

Turn your vision inward and then the whole world will be full of the Supreme Spirit.

I have some great stories and I will get around to writing a book.

If you love someone and they reject and neglect, you gotta move on, there's no point running in circles for someone when there's no reward.

Since I've had a career, my hair has been more or less professional.