“if you wanted to drown you could, but you don’t because finally after all this struggle and all these years you simply don’t want to any more, you’ve simply had enough of drowning and you wa… | Continue reading
“The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia.” | Continue reading
“The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer. There are many men who feel a kind of twisted pride in cynicism; there are many who confine themselves to criticism of the way others… | Continue reading
How the gaps in gravity contour the next frontiers in the quest to understand the fundaments of what we are. | Continue reading
“The more stressful the environment, the more likely you are to see plants working together to ensure mutual survival.” | Continue reading
“Which you is ‘who’? The person you are today? Five years ago? Who you’ll be in fifty years? And when is ‘am’? This week? Today? This hour? This second? And whic… | Continue reading
“There seems little doubt that the application of the principles of ecology to human affairs, whether personal, national or world-wide, would go far in solving the problems that beset us.R… | Continue reading
“Art is a matter of enjoyment through the five senses. Unless you can see the beauty all around you everywhere, and enjoy it, you can never comprehend art.” | Continue reading
Facing the logical fallacies that fuel painful emotional patterns and what it takes to break them with dignity, mindfulness, and emotional maturity. | Continue reading
How the beloved scientist transformed a childhood fantasy into the rugged reality of revolutionary work. | Continue reading
“Forgiving… is the only reaction which does not merely re-act but acts anew and unexpectedly, unconditioned by the act which provoked it and therefore freeing from its consequences both… | Continue reading
A heartening testament to the power of undivided intention. | Continue reading
“Don’t start with a big idea. Start with a phrase, a line, a quote. Questions are very helpful. Begin with a few you’re carrying right now.” | Continue reading
“A metaphor is language that simultaneously creates and solves its own riddle; within that minute explosion of mind is both expansion and release… It is how the mind instructs itself in… | Continue reading
“Innovators always seek to revitalize, extend and reconstruct the status quo in their given fields… Quite often they are the rejects, outcasts, sub-citizens, etc. of the very societies … | Continue reading
“Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.” | Continue reading
From Heaven to Hell by way of melting faces and flying bones. | Continue reading
Rewilding the landscape of possibility for the poetry of being. | Continue reading
“We are our memory… that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.” | Continue reading
“We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire.” | Continue reading
Quiet courage and improbable redemption under the sycamore tree. | Continue reading
“Love is an impulse which springs from the most profound depths of our beings, and upon reaching the visible surface of life carries with it an alluvium of shells and seaweed from the inner a… | Continue reading
“You will look at everything. And everything is really quite beautiful. Quite.” | Continue reading
“Life is loneliness… Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship — but the loneliness of the soul, in its appalling self-consciousness, is horrible and overpowering.” | Continue reading
“My life … runs back through time and space to the very beginnings of the world and to its utmost limits. In my being I sum up the earthly inheritance and the state of the world at this… | Continue reading
A rose is a rose is a revolution. | Continue reading
How our cosmic improbability confers dignity and meaning upon our shared existence. | Continue reading
“We should invert our eyes and practice a sublime astronomy in the infinitude of our heart… If we see the Milky Way, it is because it actually exists in our souls.” | Continue reading
“We are each a river with a particular abiding character, but we show radically different aspects of our self according to the territory through which we travel.” | Continue reading
“Contemplating the teeming life of the shore, we have an uneasy sense of the communication of some universal truth that lies just beyond our grasp… the ultimate mystery of Life itself.&… | Continue reading
“Nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.” | Continue reading
“Within every color lies a story, and stories are the binding agent of culture… The right words can come only out of the perfect space of a place you love.” | Continue reading
A resaning antidote to one of the most dangerous and damaging romantic myths in our culture. | Continue reading
“Sound is sea: pattern lapping pattern.” | Continue reading
“‘Tis good — the looking back on Grief.” | Continue reading
Encounters with the beautiful and the sublime in the science of “the single most dangerous object known to humanity.” | Continue reading
“At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable.” | Continue reading
“Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function. Living is the functionary… A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.” | Continue reading
“Playing music is the brain’s equivalent of a full-body workout.” | Continue reading
“Every plant one tends he falls in love with… Only persons of perennial genius attract or recreate as the plants, and of books we may say the same, as of the magic of solitude.” | Continue reading
How a visionary turned the art of noticing into a leap of science. | Continue reading
“One has to shut off that nagging part of the mind and go on without it with bravo and philosophy.” | Continue reading
An ecological symphony between the bears and the deep blue sea. | Continue reading
“All of us are knowers, all the time; it is only occasionally and in spite of ourselves that we understand the mystery of given reality.” | Continue reading
“Fantasy and feeling lie deeper than words… and both demand a more profound, more biological expression, the primitive expression of music.” | Continue reading
How a tiny creature faster than the Space Shuttle balances the impossible equation of extreme fragility and superhuman strength. | Continue reading
“The need to separate ourselves and connect ourselves to our environment (world) is a primary need of all human beings.” | Continue reading
A working theory of grafting Eden. | Continue reading