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When the axe came to the forest, the trees said, 'The handle is one of us.'

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

Mystery is not about traveling to new places but about looking with new eyes.

The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.

The practice of love is the most powerful antidote to the politics of domination.

I said: What about my heart? He said: Tell me what you hold inside it? I said: Pain and sorrow. He said: Stay with it. The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

The appearance of perspectivelessness is simply the illusion by which the dominant perspective is made to appear neutral, ordinary, and beyond question.

Language is a slippery medium in which to encode a purpose.

We choose our own circles of accountability.

Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego."

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

As long as we continue to live as if we are what we do, what we have, and what other people think about us, we will remain filled with judgments, opinions, evaluations, and condemnations. We will remain addicted to putting people and things in their 'right' place.

I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. Unfortunately, I am confined to this theme by the narrowness of my experience.

A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.