You cannot devalue the body and value the soul Or value anything else.

In the loss of skill, we lose stewardship; in losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of Creation. It is possible - as our experience in this good land shows - to exile ourselves from Creation, and to ally ourselves with the principle of destruction - which is, ultimately, the principle of nonentity. It is to be willing in general for being to not-be. And once we have allied ourselves with that principle, we are foolish to think that we can control the results. (pg. 303, The Gift of Good Land)

Willing to die you give up your will; keep still, until moved by what moves all else, you move.

The soil under the grass is dreaming of a young forest, and under the pavement the soil is dreaming of grass.

There are some things the arrogant mind does not see; it is blinded by its vision of what it desires.

Only the action that is moved by love for the good at hand has the hope of being responsible and generous.

The two great aims of industrialism — replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy — seem close to fulfillment.