Walter Perkins

“A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.”
― Djuna Barnes

“And it occurred to him that a walk through the countryside was a sort of epitome of the passage through life itself. One never took the time to savor the details; one said: another day, but always with the hidden knowledge that each day was unique and final, that there never would be a return, another time.”
― Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky

“In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.”
― St. Augustine

“The Tripitaka, he said, did not follow the eightfold path. His nature is to stray, to be lost, to err. Only by journeying so can he learn to follow the true path.”
― Lavie Tidhar, Jesus and the Eightfold Path