Awe is the beginning of wisdom. Awe is the beginning of education.

Animals teach us about the animals in ourselves. We need their spirits.

I'll put it to you this way: I never, ever think about the things that I get involved with on a macro means-to-an-ends scale.

Cars are part of our genetic makeup. It's unavoidable.

Healthy mysticism praises acts of letting go, of being emptied, of getting in touch with the space inside and expanding this until it merges with the space outside. Space meeting space; empty pouring into empty. Births happen from that encounter with emptiness, nothingness. . . . Let us not fight emptiness and nothingness, but allow it to penetrate us even as we penetrate it.

Work should be in order to live. We don't live in order to work. That shift in awareness is necessary.

If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully.