as some strings, untouched, sound when no one is speaking. So it was when love slipped inside us.

You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.

The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.

Zen pretty much comes down to three things -- everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.

How fragile we are, between the few good moments.

Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.

How silently the heart pivots on its hinge.

Existence itself is nothing if not an amazement. Good poems restore amazement.

Something looks back from the trees, and knows me for who I am.

In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble.

You must try, the voice said, to become colder. I understood at once. It's like the bodies of gods: cast in bronze, braced in stone. Only something heartless could bear the full weight.

Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Those who speak of progression but are afraid of change are self-repressed and therefore unable to reach any further than their eyes can already see.

You will never know everything. Knowledge unfolds as we move forward. Sitting back and waiting to know everything before we do anything is a waste of life.~ I Am Another You

That's what you would do with untold power? Eat cake?

This book is about a salvation that takes place within our unknowing and dissatisfaction,

Hard work is the key to any achievement.

You are down in the valley and the valley is filled with smog. You can't see too well. When we meditate, we are going beyond the smog to the top of the mountain.

The human soul is not framed for continued proximity, and the result of this enforced neighbourhood is often an appalling loneliness for which the rules of the game forbid assuagement.

I don't think you can write novels on the road. You need a certain stability.

Poetry and painting are rooted in the same law, The work of heaven and of the first cause.