What is any religion? A little ritual, a little superstition, and some magic. It's not a strictly spiritual affair; it has psychological roles to fulfill. You might not want it to be a religion based on your own experience but that's like wanting to clean up your dreams

Nature is orderly. That which appears to be chaotic in nature is only a more complex kind of order.

Having a place means that you know what a place means...what it means in a storied sense of myth, character and presence but also in an ecological sense...Integrating native consciousness with mythic consciousness

Practically speaking, a life that is vowed to simplicity, appropriate boldness, good humor, gratitude, unstinting work and play, and lots of walking, brings us close to the actually existing world and its wholeness.

Zen aims at freedom but its practice is disciplined.

With no surroundings there can be no path, and with no path one cannot become free.

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