To praise is to praise how one surrenders to the emptiness.
Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?
It's morning, and again I am that lucky person who is in it.
The dream of my life is to lie down by a slow river and stare at the light in the trees - to learn something by being nothing
And I say to my heart: rave on.
Ten times a day something happens to me like this - some strengthening throb of amazement - some good sweet empathic ping and swell. This is the first, the wildest and the wisest thing I know: that the soul exists and is built entirely out of attentiveness.
So every day So every day I was surrounded by the beautiful crying forth of the ideas of God, one of which was you.
Scientists have discovered a black hole that is 12 billion times the size of our sun. It's full of Hillary Clinton emails.
The feigning sleeper can delude others he cannot delude himself. The false mystic, unfortunately, can delude both others and himself.
It's a question of discipline,' the little prince told me later on. 'when you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet. you must be sure you pull up the baobabs regularly, as soon as you can tell them apart from the rosebushes, which they closely resemble when they're very young. It's very tedious work, but very easy.
Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.