Beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.

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.

When I grow up, I'd like to be dangerous.

Mistakes are stepping stones for great achievement.

Again and again, the cicada’s untiring cry pierced the sultry summer air like a needle at work on thick cotton cloth.

I suppose it can be truthfully said that hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

More modern poetry is written than read.

Pour away despair and rinse the cup. Eat happiness like bread.

I think it is impossible for one human being really to know another without first knowing and being at peace with himself.

Art reminds us that in fact the world always exceeds our grasp and perception.

God is the mysterious veil under which we hide our ignorance of the cause.

Yes, I still take my baths all day long. They're meditative. I have three a day.