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

True affluence is not needing anything.

We . . . must try to live without causing unnecessary harm, not just to fellow humans but to all beings. We must try not to be stingy, or to exploit others. There will be enough pain in the world as it is.

You don't want to be victimized by your lesser talents.

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

I try to hold both history and wilderness in mind, that my poems may the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance and ignorance of our times.

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.