Making a living and making a life sometimes point in opposite directions.
We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say.
I'm one of those perverse people who likes being alone. I always took myself to be a community of one. That's what I am comfortable with.
We may be joined these days more by the questions we have in common than by the answers we share.
Finding a sanctuary, a place apart from time, is not so different from finding a faith.
The Dalai Lama, these days, encourages Westerners not to take up Buddhism, partly because he feels that our roots are deep in other traditions, and we should go deeper into our own traditions rather than just acquiring the surfaces of others.