That time I thought I could not go any closer to grief without dying I went closer, and I did...

“We believe everything is out there. We often act as if we understand everything. This is very egoistic. When we see...

“The game changes over time according to the superstructure of society. The superstructure is what determines the nature of the...

“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen....

NATURE IS ALWAYS WITH YOU I find it helpful to remember that a person can establish or reestablish that primal...

“Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they...

If it’s not a strong yes, it’s a no.

Each one of us matters. We are beloved. And we are all a beautiful expression of the human experience.

The only place to come from is love. The only way to be is kind. The only way to live...

Let us all the remember that the only way to find equanimity is to choose to see the world as...

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Gary Kowalski — a parish minister by vocation, who spends his days praying with the dying, blessing bonds of love,...

“Be joyful. Because it is humanly possible.” - Wendell Berry

“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was duty. I worked—and behold, duty...

In a poem Overstreet wrote years ago, “You say the Little efforts that I make will do no good: they...

You know, the messages are going to keep getting louder until you stop and listen to them.

“Every strange thing you’ve ever been into, every failed hobby or forgotten instrument, everything you have ever learned will come...

Love doesn’t grow from certainty but from willingness.

We are all the authors of our own stories. We live by stories. The stories we tell ourselves and how...

From Mary Oliver’s 1983 American Primitive   In Blackwater Woods, To live in this world you must be able to...