We are all born as animals and live the life that animals live: we sleep, eat, reproduce, and fight. There is, however, another order of living, which the animals do not know, that of awe before the mystery of being ... that can be the root and branch of the spiritual sense of one’s days. That is the birth - the Virgin Birth - in the heart of a properly human, spiritual life.

It is within you that the divine lives.

All life stinks and you must embrace that with compassion.

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it.

One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.

Privation and suffering alone open the mind to all that is hidden to others. (Igjugarjuk)

Once you know the difference between right and wrong, you have lots fewer decisions to make.