Even when clouds grow thick, the sun still pours its light earthward.

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

The flower doesn't dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.

The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased.

When we heal ourselves, we heal the world.

The real & lasting practice for each of us is to remove what obstructs us so we can be who we are.

To journey without being changed, is to be a nomad. To change without journeying is to be a chameleon. To journey and to be transformed by the journeying is to be a pilgrim.

Tragedy stays alive by feeling what's been done to us, while peace comes alive by living with the results.

…I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky.” (p.275)

Each of us carries some wisdom waiting to be discovered at the center of our experience. Everything we meet, if faced and held, reveals a part of that wisdom.

…there are no wrong turns, only unexpected paths.

Know from root to fruit

What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.

Time makes more converts than reason.

If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.

Administrators make work for each other so that they can multiply the number of their subordinates and enhance their prestige.

You have not chosen one another, but I have chosen you for one another.

I've often lost myself, in order to find the burn that keeps everything awake

In comparison, Google is brilliant because it uses an algorithm that ranks Web pages by the number of links to them, with those links themselves valued by the number of links to their page of origin.

We'll have a kid or maybe we'll rent one. He's got to be straight, we don't want a bent one.

Everything was becoming allegorical, understood by the group mind, and especially this: "You're either on the bus...or off the bus.