One does not "find oneself" by pursuing one's self, but on the contrary by pursuing something else and learning through discipline or routine. . . who one is and wants to be.

Mountains define you. You cannot define / Them.

It is the place of renewal and of safety, where for a little while there will be no harm or attack and, while every sense is nourished, the soul rests.

Unless the gentle inherit the earth, / There will be no earth.

One could go on revising a prose page forever whereas there is a point in a poem when one knows it is done forever.

When addressed, a Gentleman Cat does not move a muscle. He looks as if he hasn't heard.

When we speak of being vulnerable, it suggests being especially vulnerable to pain. People for whom personal dignity and self-sufficiency are everything, do all they can to shut it out. Noli mi tangere. They are well aware that any intimate relationship has pain in it, forces a special kind of awareness, is costly, and so they try to keep themselves unencumbered by shutting pain out as far as it is possible to do so.