To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.

it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

I don't ask for the sights in front of me to change, only the depth of my seeing.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began.

Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love and the ability to question. Which are, at the same time, the fires that warm us and the fires that scorch us.

You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.

Once you learn to choose your belongings properly, you will be left with only the amount that fits perfectly in the space you own.

Facebook turned me down. It was a great opportunity to connect with some fantastic people. Looking forward to life’s next adventure.

A lot of people have nothing very well organized, and a lot of people have nothing, very well organized.

Point set topology is a disease from which the human race will soon recover.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

The child who ran weeping to you with a cut finger is now brought home, smiling gamely, with a broken collarbone and incredible contusions- 'it wasn't Jezebels fault, Dad.'

If we just stay at the crest of the mycelial wave, it will take us into heretofore unknown territories that will be just magnificent in their implications.

Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own.

Mediocre founders spend a lot of time talking about grand plans, but they never quite make a decision.

Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well.