I've been interested in Eastern religions since I went to college because I was trying to figure out where I stood with Catholicism.
Mining in BC's Sacred Headwaters is like drilling for oil in the Sistine Chapel
The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are not failed attempts at being you; they are unique manifestations of the human spirit.
A language is not just a body of vocabulary or a set of grammatical rules. . . . Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind.
The world can only appear monochromatic to those who persist in interpreting what they experience through the lens of a single cultural paradigm, their own. For those with the eyes to see and the heart to feel, it remains a rich and complex topography of the spirit.
The measure of a society is not only what it does but the quality of its aspirations.
If diversity is a source of wonder, its opposite - the ubiquitous condensation to some blandly amorphous and singulary generic modern culture that takes for granted an impoverished environment - is a source of dismay. There is, indeed, a fire burning over the earth, taking with it plants and animals, cultures, languages, ancient skills and visionary wisdom. Quelling this flame, and re-inventing the poetry of diversity is perhaps the most importent challenge of our times.
It seems that in connecting to what is true within myself, I help other people to connect. Making genuine connection lies at the beginning of building a real community.
Get into something that's really personal that means something to you, where you have something to say and is something really individualized. I wish I was more aware of that when I started my career instead of doing a few things I was told would be good for me. And they weren't, because it left me empty, so I didn't do a good job anyways. I think that's what's key to what we do: It's got to be personal.
The usefulness of mathematics in furthering the sciences is commonly acknowledged: but outside the ranks of the experts there is little inquiry into its nature and purpose as a deliberate human activity. Doubtless this is due to the inevitable drawback that mathematical study is saturated with technicalities from beginning to end.
Isn't there a danger with Tweeting, like drunk dialing? Isn't there a drunk Tweeting danger?