Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.

No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary.

The mundane and the sacred are one and the same.

The problem is to overcome the ingrained disbelief in the power of winning nature by love, in the gentle (ju) way (do) of turning with the skid, of controlling ourselves by cooperating with ourselves.

The Greek word for sinning means to ‘miss the point;’ The point is eternal life which is here and now.

When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous, than you thought it was.

The 'you' who you think you are does not exist.