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.

Remember on this one thing, said Badger. The stories people tell have a way of taking care of them. 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. That is why we put these stories in each other's memories. This is how people care for themselves.

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

The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you

The attempt to close the gap between what is known and what IS, is the temptation behind the apple in Genesis.

Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.