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The spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human.
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The field is a halfway house, halfway between the detail of those intimately known places and the ignorance of a landscape view ... The essence of a field is that the cultural accommodates the natural there. The human being makes room for and makes use of those organisms that are not him. In that way the field is a poem to symbiosis, and a human contract with the natural.
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Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern.
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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
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Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action, our problems are most complex and, too often, silently borne.
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You get into the habit of being angry and hurt by life, and then when something good happens you can't accept it because it doesn't fit the pattern.
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MS is not really a degenerative illness. It is not fatal, nor is it always progressive.
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Heart disease is a food-borne illness.
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People who tend not to report illness are people who are highly competitive and do not want to admit they are not coping.
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A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
