The forest is the first cathedral. I felt that from the time I was a child. I credit my mother with that. I used to think it came from her Native-American side. Whichever it was, she instinctively connected with nature, and taught me that.
Love likes to extend itself. If you receive it in a book – or however you get it – then your duty is to extend it beyond.
Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.
It’s so clear that you have to cherish everyone.
There is always a moment in any kind of struggle when one feels in full bloom. Vivid. Alive. One might be blown to bits in such a moment and still be at peace.
After all, how can a society flourish, a country attain democracy and health, children grow into intelligent beings, sensitive to the needs of an ever more fragile and endangered planet, if half it’s people are kept out of the driver’s seat?
What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure; that one is born into evil rather than into joy.
Freedom, after all, is like love: the more you give to others, the more you have.
To know is to exist; to exist is to be involved, to move about, to see the world with my own eyes.
Listen, God loves everything you love, and a mess of stuff you don’t.
Healing cannot be done by settling a score.
Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
Find yourself a cup of tea; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things. Saki Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.
I am not lesbian, I am not bisexual, I am not straight. I am just curious.
There’s an ecstatic side to writing. It’s like jazz. It just has a life.
As we talked of freedom and justice one day for all, we sat down to steaks. I am eating misery, I thought, as I took the first bite. And spit it out.
When you are active, and you must know this so well, that the more you are active, the more you see, the more you go to see. You know, you are curious. One thing leads to another thing, and it gets deeper and deeper, too. And there’s no end to it.
HELPED are those who are shown the existence of the Creator’s magic in the Universe; they shall experience delight and astonishment without ceasing.
HELPED are those who love the entire cosmos rather than their own tiny country, city, or farm, for to them will be shown the unbroken web of life and the meaning of infinity.
Laughter isn’t even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth.