A cynic is just a man who found out when he was ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset.
We are full of bread and gas, getting fat on the outside while inside we grow thin
There is a language beyond human language, an elemental language, one that arises from the land itself.
I resented my mother for guessing my innermost secrets. She was like God, everywhere at once knowing everything.
Walking. I am listening to a deeper way. Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands.
Some people see scars, and it is wounding they remember. To me they are proof of the fact that there is healing.
Walking, I can almost hear the redwoods beating. And the oceans are above me here, rolling clouds, heavy and dark. It is winter and there is smoke from the fires. It is a world of elemental attention, of all things working together, listening to what speaks in the blood. Whichever road I follow, I walk in the land of many gods, and they love and eat one another. Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands.
Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915 Our critical day is not the very day of our death, but the whole course of our life; I thank him, that prays for me when my bell tolls; but I thank him much more, that catechizes me, or preaches to me, or instructs me how to live.
I didn't wake up one day and say, you know, 'Supply-side economics doesn't make sense.
I think most of us are fascinated by the macabre and by the weird and even the nastiness that comes along.
The United States has an absolute duty to attack terrorism where it lives and breeds, in order to prevent future attacks on American citizens around the world. The American people stand united in the face of terrorism. The men and women who undertook this mission deserve our praise and prayers.