The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.

Rivers perhaps are the only physical features of the world that are at their best from the air.

I would like to achieve a state of inner spiritual grace from which I could function and give as I was meant to in the eye of God.

Travel Far, Pay No Fare... a book can take you anywhere.

When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others. Only when one is connected to one's own core is.

The world has different owners at sunrise... Even your own garden does not belong to you. Rabbits and blackbirds have the lawns; a tortoise-shell cat who never appears in daytime patrols the brick walls, and a golden-tailed pheasant glints his way through the iris spears.

For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.