Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.

The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.

I still try to keep my eyes open. I'm always on the lookout for antlion traps in sandy soil, monarch pupae near milkweed, skipper larvae in locust leaves. These things are utterly common, and I've not seen one

The way you live your days is the way you live your life.

We still and always want waking.

An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? No, said the priest, not if you did not know. Then why, asked the Inuit earnestly, did you tell me?

why did I have to keep learning this same thing over and over?