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"Knowledge has entertained me and it has shaped me and it has failed me.Something in me still starves.In what is probably the most serious inquiry of my life,I have begun to look past reason,past the provable,in other directions.Now I think there is only one subject worth my attention and tht is the precognition of the spiritual side of the world and,within this recognition,the condition of my own spiritual state."

"In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love, and the ability to ask questions. Which are, at the same time, the fires that warm us and the fires that scorch us."

“Were they seed eaters? Were they meat eaters? Not the point. They were dreamers, and imaginers, and declarers; they lived looking and looking and looking, seeing the apparent and beyond the apparent, wondering, allowing for uncertainty, also grace, easygoing here, ferociously unmovable there; they were thoughtful.”

“Forebears, models, spirits whose influence and teachings I am now inseparable from, and forever grateful for. I go nowhere, I arrive nowhere, without them. With them I live my life, with them I enter the event, I mold the meditation, I keep if I can some essence of the hour, even as it slips away.”