“Plans are useless, but planning is invaluable.” Winston Churchill We easily confuse plans with planning, dreams with dreaming, and love with loving. The wisdom waiting within what Churchill says is that we live like hungry fishermen: sewing and casting our nets,...
“Once for each thing. Just once; no more. And we too, just once. And never again. But to have been this once, completely, even if only once: to have been at one with the earth, seems beyond undoing.” Rainer Maria Rilke I was visiting a friend who asked me, “How do...
“Genius is a crisis that joins the buried self, for certain moments, to our daily mind.” William Butler Yeats We have been trained to think of genius as an unusual brilliance of mind, an ability to retain or calculate or conceptualize uncanny amounts of information....
” I take a wolf’s rib and whittle it sharp at both ends and freeze it in blubber and place it out on the fairway of the bears. And when it has vanished I move out on the bear tracks, roaming in circles for days.” Galway Kinnell The way that Eskimo hunt bear for food...
“To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything is to succumb to violence. The frenzy of the activist neutralizes his or her...
