Will

“For the ordinary man or woman, whose mind is a checkerboard of crisscrossing reflections, opinions, and prejudices, bare attention is virtually impossible; one’s life is thus centered not in reality itself but in one’s ideas of it.”
― Philip Kapleau, The Three Pillars of Zen

“My dissipating thoughts of life in terms of victory or defeat came along willy nilly from a culture that pretended that life was far more solid than it actually was. The edges were actually blurred and moved along with the infinitely variable shape of a river.”
― Jim Harrison, The English Major

“I told Robert when he came home for Christmas that I’d rather he be gay than a Republican.”
― Jim Harrison, The English Major

“We English majors of a serious bent are susceptible to high ideals we paste on our lives like decals.”
― Jim Harrison, The English Major