We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Adolescence is like cactus.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Life, religion and art all converge in Bali. They have no word in their language for 'artist' or 'art.' Everyone is an artist.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source.

You cannot save people. You can only love them.

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.

Archetypes are the mirror images of our never to be seen self

A journey through nature is always a road thatleads to self-discovery.

Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness.

As long as you are focused on your own problems, you live and think as a self-centered man.

Don't live beyond your means. Don't buy more than you can pay for. Don't expect to get rich quick. And don't confuse salesmen for friends or advisers.

Marriage is too interesting an experiment to be tried only once.

No society will long survive without mothers who care for their young and provide that nurturing care so essential for their normal development.

Had he known his death was imminent, he might have gone somewhere else. Instead, he did what we all do. He went about his dull routine as if all the days in the world were still to come. ~pg 4

The turtle couldn't help us.