It's important to be heroic, ambitious, productive, efficient, creative, and progressive, but these qualities don't necessarily nurture soul. The soul has different concerns, of equal value: downtime for reflection, conversation, and reverie; beauty that is captivating and pleasuring; relatedness to the environs and to people; and any animal’s rhythm of rest and activity.

Socrates and Jesus, two teachers of virtue and love, were executed because of the unsettling, threatening power of their souls, which was revealed in their personal lives and in their words.

Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.

A genuine odyssey is not about piling up experiences. It is a deeply felt, risky, unpredictable tour of the soul.

Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.

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