Living Thinking

Creation . . . it says: I remember everything simultaneously: Like the distant beam of a distant lighthouse, I carry the universe before me Like an easy burden on an outstretched palm, And in the depths, mysteriously growing, is the seed Of what is to come . . .

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

...your conceptions of what myths are and what practical functions they served for Native Americans is probably wrong - especially if you have read or seen on television popular descriptions of 'primitive myths' by 'experts' like Mircea Eliade or Joseph Campbell, or some more recent and less famous pundits peddling misinformation through terms like 'universal symbol' or 'archetype.'

It might be true that the sun rises regularly because he never gets tired of rising. His routine might be due, not to a lifelessness, but to a rush of life.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

The time to fight for freedom is the time when freedom is threatened, not the time when freedom is destroyed, for that later time is too late. Freedom is threatened now, the destruction of freedom is not far off. Now is the time to fight.

Life isn’t divided into genres. It’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.

It is not words only that are emblematic; it is things which are emblematic. Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

The revelation of the senses! I lose all urgency. My thoughts become a dream, a haze. Yet in what the senses make appear, a cosmic sense draws near.

I don't ever want to fall in love again; I want to rise into it.