Don't just live the length of your life - live the width of it as well.
We can't enchant the world, which makes its own magic; but we can enchant ourselves by paying deep attention
Smell is the mute sense, the one without words.
The more we exile ourselves from nature, the more we crave its miracle waters.
I try to give myself passionately, totally, to whatever I'm observing, with as much affectionate curiosity as I can muster, as a means of understanding a little better what being human is.
Disassociating, mindfulness, transcendence-whatever the label-it's a sort of loophole in our contract with reality, a form of self-rescue.