Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.

And is not the lute that soothes your spirit the very wood that was hollowed with knives?

Your saying 'I do not understand you' is praise beyond my worth, and an insult you do not deserve.

The sea that calls all things unto her cals me, and I must embark.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions; but the birds live according to the natural law of God who causes the earth to turn around the sun.

The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe.