The ordinary activities I find most compatible with contemplation are walking, baking bread, and doing laundry.

Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.

Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.

Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

To be an American is to move on, as if we could outrun change. To attach oneself to place is to surrender to it, and suffer with it.

It's all so beautiful . . . the spring . . . and books and music and fires. . . . Why aren't they enough?

Pay close attention to objects, events and natural phenomenon that would otherwise get chewed up in the daily grind.