When we did not move or speak, there was no proof that we were there at all.

Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.

Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life.

Every sorrow suggests a thousand songs and every song recalls a thousand sorrows and so they are infinite in number and all the same.

I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.

We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of our own nature.

This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.

There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.

Ordinary things have always seemed numinous to me

Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.

There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, everyone of them sufficient

Love awakens spirit of being.

You’ll be civilized or we’ll leave your arse here.” Johan... "Vital Perception

I want to live in a society where people are intoxicated with the joy of making things

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they find to laugh at.

Music and love are the wings of the soul.

Let's not be optimistic in the irreversibly irresponsible way that tends to happen with the crazies of geo-engineering. But let's talk about what sorts of changes we can make.

We may form free constitutions, but our vices will destroy them; we may enact laws, but they will not protect us.

Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.

The last thing I would want to do is to create the impression that sectarianism came from only one side of the community.

Your life, your soul, your world. They cannot kill it. Look at me, I’ve died but I opened my eyes again.