Whenever there is stillness there is the still small voice, God's speaking from the whirlwind, nature's old song, and dance.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.

At a certain point, you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. Now I will stop and be wholly attentive. You empty yourself and wait, listening.

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.

Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.

According to Inuit culture in Greenland, a person possesses six or seven souls. The souls take the form of tiny people scattered throughout the body.

The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.

I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.

The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.

I don’t see doctrines, when I talk about religions. All I see are different experiential realities of the one and the same neuronal Kingdom of God.

Just because you pretend the universe doesn't have teeth doesn't mean you won't get eaten in the end.

I become a horn to be heard over whistles.

There is only one El Hombre and that is Stan Musial.

I started blogging in 2004, light years ago on the Web.

I liked the drama of getting stoned.

The size of your faith or the degree of your knowledge is not the issue—it is the integrity you demonstrate toward the faith you do have and the truth you already know.

Congress, the legislative stone in America's urethra.

Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.

Only psychos and shamans create their own reality