True journey is return.

Ursula LeQuin

Love always begins with a single look. And that is the only way it ever begins.

Victor Hugo

It's just a different kind of climb.

Neil Beidleman

If I were the king of the universe, I wouldn't want anymore than you have.

Peter Townsend

Until we solve our philosophical problems we are doomed to wrestle our

political problems over and over again.

Tom Robbins

If it were easy anybody could do it.

Dave Gieger

Loyalty, which asserts the continuity of past and future, binding time

into a whole, is the root of human strength. There is no good to be done without it.

Ursula LeQuin

"To believe that the world is only as you think it is is stupid," he said.

"The world is a mysterious place, especially in the twilight. At this

time of day, in the twilight, there is no wind. There is only power."

Carlos Casteneada

What counts is that you have looked for her everywhere; that makes her a

special person in your world, and for a special person one should have only fine words.

Carlos Casteneada

When you get to the top, keep on climbing.

Cody Paulson

Have a little faith in people.

Woody Allen

I want real words, broken by real silences.

Susan Jordon

And yet none of his certainties was worth one strand of a womans hair.

Albert Camus

Goodbye, kiss me once more; thats right, now go.

Dostoevski

Try to reject what you've seen over and over. It's been done a million times before,

why bother? Try to create some self expression of your own.

Anonymous artist

Love is central. Love is how we understand ourselves.

Susan Atwood

Elegance and harmony, beauty, lie not in the false editing of discord but in the unblinking

confrontation of that which appears discordant. Watching waiting until harmony emerges.

Steven Myers

Tell me Tom, when did the tango not become a choice for you?

Dance partner of Tom Stermitz

Never confuse having a career with having a life.

Frank Stermitz

But if its the religious life you want, you ought to know right now that you're missing out

on every goddamn religious action that's going on around this house. You don't even have

the sense to drink when somebody brings you a cup of consecrated chicken soup - which is

the only kind of soup Bessie ever brings to anybody around this madhouse.

J.D. Salanger

Cultures can exist with little or no trace of civilization; and usually do... Civilization is the vital force

in human history; culture is that inert mass of institutions and organizations which acculmulate around

and tend to drag down the advance of life... Civilization is mutual aid and self defense; culture is the judge,

the lawbook and the forces of Law and Order. Civilization is uprising, isnsurrection, revolution; culture is

the war of state against state or of machines against people as in Vietnam and Hungary. Civilization is

tolerance, detachment and humor, or passion, anger, revenge; culture the entrance examination, the gas chamber,

the doctoral dissertation and the electric chair. Civilization is the Ukranian peasant Nestor Makhno fighting

the Germans, then the Reds, then the Whites, then the Reds again; Culture is Stalin and the Fatherland.

Civilization is the wild river; culture, 592,000 pounds of cement.

Edward Abbey

It was open country, bald and open, without an end. It spread away, flat now and then rolling,

going on clear to the sky. A man wouldn't think the whole world was so much. It made the heart

come up. It made a man little and still big, like a king looking out.

A.B. Guthrie

rigidity isn't the same as stability at all. True stability comes when presumed order and presumed

disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted,

waits to be transformed.

Tom Robbins

Civilization has so cluttered this elemental man-earth relationship with gadgets and middlemen that

awareness of it is growing dim. We fancy that industry supports us, forgetting what supports industry.

Also Leopold

"Did I ever tell you about the time that Tim and I"

And he'd say, "Don't think about the past, just be here now." Silence.

And I'd say, "How long do you think we are going to be on this trip?"

And he'd say, "Don't think about the future, just be here now."

And I'd say, "You know, I really feel curmby, my hips are hurting."

"Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the vast

calm ocean." He had just sort of wiped out my whole game plan.

Ram Dass

Until one is committed there is hesitency, the chance to draw back, always uneffectiveness. Concerning

all acts of initiative (and creation) there is one elementary truth - the ignorance of which kills countless

ideas and splendid plans - that the moment one definitely commits oneself then Providence moves too.

All sorts of things occur to help one that would never have otherwise occurred. A whole stream of events

issue from the decision raising in one's favor all manor of unforseen incidents and meetings and material

assistance which none of us could have dreamed would come our way. Whatever you can do or dream,

begin it. Boldness has genius, power, magic in it. Begin it now!

Goeth

The world needs to know that there is a place where men live amidst a balanced interplay of the goods of

technology and the fruits of nature. Unless we can prove that a modern society can thrive in harmony with

the land, the bits of wildness we salvage in Alaska will be nothing more than curious artifacts in the sad

museum of mankind.

Weeden

He begins from the center and not from the fringe. He imparts an understanding of the basic principles

of an art before going on to the meticulous details.

Alan Watt (on masterful teaching)

A master teaches essence. When essence is perceived, he teaches what is necessary to expand that perception.

Gary Zukav

These guys come up to me and say, 'We have to calk around the windows with silicone.' I say, 'You fucked up.

You have to work to closer tolerences so you don't have these big gaps around the frames. What you need is some

cotton thread and beeswax.'

Yvon Chouinard

We may say that the earth has a spirit of growth, and that its flesh is the soil; its bones are the successive strata

of the rocks...its cartilage is the tufa stone; its blood the viens of its waters.

Leonado da Vinci (anticipating the Gaia theory by about a millenium)

There is nothing I can give you which you have not; but there is much that, while I cannot give, you can take.

No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in it today. Take Heaven. No peace lies in the future which

is not hidden in this present instant. Take Peace. The gloom of the world is but a shadow; behind it, but within

our reach, is joy. Take Joy. And so, at this Christmas time, I greet you, with the prayer that for you, now and

forever, the day breaks and the shadows flee away.

Fra Giovanni