What you plan is too small for you to live.

See, even if you're stuck in life, if you can describe just exactly the way you're stuck, then you will immediately recognise that you can't go on that way anymore. So, just saying precisely, writing precisely how you're stuck, or how you're alienated, opens up a door of freedom for you.

Courage is the measure of our heartfelt participation with life, with another, with a community, a work, a future.

I love the best of all the traditions. My discipline is the take-no-prisoners language of good poetry, but a language that actually frees us from prejudice, no matter what religion or political persuasion they are. I try to create a river-like discourse. The river is not political, it's not on your side or against you. It's an invitation into the onward flow.

Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation.

The severest test of work today, is not of our strategies, but of our imaginations and identities.

The truth about our own modest contribution might immobilize us: much easier then, to tell ourselves a story about how much we make our own reality.