The sacred is discovered in what moves and touches us, in what makes us tremble.

We now realize that we're not living in a piecemeal world, but a world where everything is linked together.

There has always been a part of me that saw wilderness and risk-taking as the path to freedom.

Without reverence we [people] will gradually descend into ecocide. In the degree that the imperatives of the market - the temple of the Mall - govern our lives, we are in escalating danger of destroying the commonwealth of all sentient beings - bugs and bees and buntings - on which we depend for a luxurious life on planet earth.

Down to earth advice about the path that leads away from the kingdom of the hollow men.

I fall into all kinds of inauthenticity when I conspire to forget my mortality.

To really love a person completely is to come to a point where your stories are intertwined.