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The sacred is in the ordinary...it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's own backyard...travel may be a flight from confronting the scared--this lesson can be easily lost. To be looking elsewhere for miracles is to me a sure sign of ignorance that everything is miraculous.
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We have got to abandon the sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything.
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The conversion of a soul is the miracle of a moment, but the manufacture of a saint is the task of a lifetime.
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The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
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The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.
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Are you really angry, or simply aware of anger in the body and mind? Don't speculate, simply look at what is there.
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A good roast of sun, it slows you, lets you relax–and out here if there's anything wrong, you can see it coming with bags of time to do what's next. This is the place and the weather for peace, for the cultivation of a friendly mind.
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The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other half listens and notates. The half that listens has better look the other way, had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely away.
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One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.
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But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained.
