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To preserve the silence within--amid all the noise. To remain open and quiet, a moist humus in the fertile darkness where the rain falls and the grain...more

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He is one of those who has had the wilderness for a pillow, and called a star his brother. Alone. But loneliness can be a communion.

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His moral lectureblazed with hate.What could have driven a child that far?

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A heart pulsating in harmony with the circulation of sap and the flow of rivers? A body with the rhythms of the earth in its movements? No. Instead: a...more

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Like wind-- In it, with it, of it. Of it just like a sail, so light and strong that, even when it is bent flat, it gathers all the power of the wind w...more

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It is not we who seek the Way, but the Way which seeks us. That is why you are faithful to it, even while you stand waiting, so long as you are prepar...more

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Better than other people.' Sometimes he says: 'That, at least, you are.' But more often: 'Why should you be? Either you are what you can be, or you ar...more

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Like the bee, we distill poison from honey for our self-defense--what happens to the bee if it uses its sting is well known.

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You wake from dreams of doom and--for a moment--you know: beyond all the noise and the gestures, the only real thing, love's calm unwavering flame in ...more

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Humility before the flower at the timber line is the gate which gives access to the path up the open fell.

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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

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Apes. The moon woke them--round the world's navel revolvedprayer wheels of steps.