What happens if I try to build a life dedicated to avoiding all danger and all unnecessary risk?

Aristotle said that philosophy begins in wonder. I believe it also ends in wonder. The ultimate way in which we relate to the world as something sacred is by renewing our sense of wonder. That's why I'm so opposed to the kind of miracle-mongering we find in both new-age and old-age religion. We're attracted to pseudomiracles only because we've ceased to wonder at the world, at how amazing it is.

Throughout my life, I've had different metaphors for freedom. At one time, it was skin diving. In the ocean you feel weightless; you escape from gravity.

We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

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

I suspect that we are all recipients of cosmic love notes. Messages, omens, voices, cries, revelations, and appeals are homogenized into each day's events. If only we knew how to listen, to read the signs.

You don't go through a deep personal transformation without some kind of dark night of the soul.