Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities--that's training or instruction--but is rather a making visible what is hidden as a seed... To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life... One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.

When we relate to our bodies as having soul, we attend to their beauty, their poetry and their expressiveness. Our very habit of treating the body as a machine, whose muscles are like pulleys and its organs engines, forces its poetry underground, so that we experience the body as an instrument and see its poetics only in illness.

I thought that the light-house looked lovely as hope, That star on life's tremulous ocean.

Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.

A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.

Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print.

The devil...the prowde spirite...cannot endure to be mocked.