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Spend the afternoon, you can't take it with you.

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It could be that God has absconded but spread, as our vision and understanding of the universe have spread, to a fabric of spirit and sense so grand a...more

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Just think: in all the clean, beautiful reaches of the solar system, our planet alone is a blot; our planet alone has death.

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An anchorite’s hermitage is called an anchor-hold; some anchor-holds were simple sheds clamped to the side of a church like a barnacle to a rock. I th...more

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Private life, book life, took place where words met imagination without passing through the world.

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The interior life expands and fills; it approaches the edge of skin; it thickens with its own vivid story; it even begins to hear rumors, from beyond ...more

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You can live as a particle crashing about and colliding in a welter of materials with god, or you can live as a particle crashing about and colliding ...more

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I saw to the south a man walking. He was breaking ground in perfect silence. He wore a harness and pulled a plow. His feet trod his figure's blue shad...more

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When we lose our innocence - when we start feeling the weight of the atmosphere and learn that there's death in the pot - we take leave of our sense.

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I am sitting under a sycamore by Tinker Creek. I am really here, alive on the intricate earth under trees. But under me, directly under the weight of ...more

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The universe that suckled us is a monster that does not care if we live or die--it does not care if it itself grinds to a halt. It is a beast running ...more

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I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my share of eating too. I am not wash...more

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The answer must be, I think, that the beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.

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The gaps are the thing. The gaps are the spirit's one home, the altitudes and latitudes so dazzlingly spare and clean that the spirit can discover its...more

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I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs.