An Eskimo shaman said, Life's greatest danger lies in the fact that man's food consists entirely of souls.

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.

Yes, I could stop writing... But only after I shoot myself.

We can be of many nations, but earth is our land.We can be of many races, but we are just one clan.

One of the cooler moments of my life was sitting front row at Helmut Lang!

I didn't choose anonymity.Instead, I chose absence.

Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.

They turned a distracted gaze on the world, wide-eyed, somehow, and questioning.

I wish adults would spend less energy freaking out about the cutting itself and work harder to understand what drives kids to self-harm.

People's belief in their own local reality-tunnels keep us all far stupider than we ought to be.

A woman in love never takes advice.

Peace is something that we become. Once we become peace, then only can we give peace to the world and receive peace from the world.