Jonathan E. Shiflet

“Place this salt in water and bring it here tomorrow morning".

The boy did.

"Where is that salt?" his father asked?

"I do not see it."

"Sip here. How does it taste?"

"Salty, father."

"And here? And there?"

"I taste salt everywhere."

"It is everywhere, though we see it not. Just so, dear one, the Self is everywhere, within all things, although we see it not. There is nothing that does not come from it. It is the truth; it is the Self supreme. You are that, Shvetaketu.

You Are That.”
― Eknath Easwaran, The Upanishads

“I am a man of the ancient earth For I have known the desert at dawn.”
― N. Scott Momaday, House Made of Dawn

“Usury is an act of Violence against Art, which is the child of Nature and hence the Grandchild of God. (By”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy:

“We gorged ourselves on networking, and lost the taste of fraternity.”
― Pope Francis, Fratelli Tutti