There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

Fortunately, however, birds don't understand pep talks. Not even St. Francis'. Just imagine, he went on, preaching sermons to perfectly good thrushes and goldfinches and chiff-chaffs! What presumption! Why couldn't he have kept his mouth shut and let the birds preach to him?

Knowledge is porportionate to being... You know in virtue of what you are.

The artists who the world has always recognized as the greatest are those with the widest sympathy. The greatness of the great artist depends precisely on the width and the intensity of his sympathy.

Drinking can not be sacramentalised except in religions which set no store on decorum. The worship of Dionysos or the Celtic god of beer was a loud and disorderly affair.

Peace is a necessary condition of spirituality, no less than an inevitable result of it.

If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.