Have we come all this way, I wondered, only to be dismantled by our own technologies, to be betrayed by political connivance or the impersonal avarice of a corporation?

In behaving respectfully toward all that the land contains, it is possible to imagine a stifling ignorance falling away from us.

If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.

One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once, life would collapse. There are simply no definitive answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.

The most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.

We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.

There's so much to be afraid of.