The mercy of the West has been social revolution; the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the basic self/void.

All that we did was human, stupid, easily forgiven, Not quite right.

Being the Stream Meditation is not just a rest or retreat from the turmoil of the stream or the impurity of the world. It is a way of being the stream, so that one can be at home in both the white water and the eddies. Meditation may take one out of the world, but it also puts one totally into it.

Walking is the great adventure, the first meditation, a practice of heartiness and soul primary to humankind. Walking is the exact balance beween spirit and humility.

A reading is a kind of communion. The poet articulates the semi-known for the tribe.

Our relation to the natural world takes place in a place.

Wildness is not just the "preservation of the world," it is the world