We learn to fly not by being fearless, but by the daily practice of courage.

Wise people are able to give themselves gracefully to seemingly contradictory experiences, because they know that they belong to different seasons of life, all of which are necessary to the whole. Spring and winter, growth and decay, creativity and fallowness, health and sickness, power and impotence, and life and death all belong within the economy of being.

I try to steer away from high metaphysical belief because I think we humans do best when we realize that we don't know all that much.

The best practice is to follow the advice posted on every railroad crossing: Stop. Look. Listen.

Consensual paranoia - the pathology of the normal person who is a member of a war-justifying society - forms the template from which all the images of the enemy are created. By studying the logic of paranoia, we can see why certain archetypes of the enemy must necessarily recur, no matter what the historical circumstances.

A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.

The deepest mystery comes not when we don't know somebody well, but when we do.