The shadows in the early morning don't tell much. The shadows rest at that time. So it's useless to gaze very early in the day. Around six in the morning the shadows wake up, and they are best around five in the afternoon. Then they are fully awake.

This very rock where we're sitting is a rock because we have been forced to give out attention to it

The ego is like a tired old dog. We can never kill it, so put it out on the back porch, let it rest there, and step around it.

The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.

...the spirit reveals itself to everyone with the same intensity and consistency, but only warriors are consistently attuned to such revelations.

Self-importance requires spending most of one's life offended by something or someone.

For me there is only the traveling on paths that have heart, on any path that may have heart, and the only worthwhile challenge is to traverse its full length--and there I travel looking, looking breathlessly.