One gains by losing self for others and not by hoarding for oneself.
The Midwest is such a tabula rasa.
What I really like to learn how to do is to build sentences that are equal to mental states.
Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.
Reading is the last act of secular prayer.
We don't consider the roles that we're taking in making the world the way it is.
Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.
The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty.
No one knows how this world came into being. It is a creation of consciousness itself. It's extraordinary, a mystery.
I think there are some artists whose works are misanthropic.
The way of the mind is to study many things; the way of the Beingness is to focus on one thing.