No writing on the solitary, meditative dimensions of life can say anything that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.

If you have never had any distractions you don't know how to pray.

To hope is to risk frustration. Make up your mind to risk frustration.

As long as I continue to take myself seriously, how can I consider myself a saint? How can I consider myself a contemplative? For the self I bother about does not really exist, never will, never did except in my own imagination.

The camera does not know what it takes; it captures materials with which you reconstruct, not so much what you saw as what you thought you saw. Hence the best photography is aware, mindful, of illusion and uses illusion, permitting and encouraging it - especially unconscious and powerful illusions that are not usually admitted on the scene.

Love is the door to eternity.

Love is a special way of being alive.