In order to survive, a plurality of true communities would require not egalitarianism and tolerance but knowledge, an understanding of the necessity of local differences, and respect. Respect, I think, always implies imagination - the ability to see one another, across our inevitable differences, as living souls.

And so you have a life that you are living only now, now and now and now, gone before you can speak of it, and you must be thankful for living day by day, moment by moment a life in the breath and pulse and living light of the present

All we can do to prepare rightly for tomorrow is to do the right thing today.

A man who does not ask to much become the promise of his land. His marriage married to his place, he waits and does not stray.

Condemnation by category is the lowest form of hatred, for it is cold-hearted and abstract, lacking even the courage of a personal hatred.

Thinking is the most overrated human activity.

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.