“It isn't as important to religiously cliam God/Jesus, then it is for us to live what we're professing to cliam"...”

“God was something I did not understand the way kids who went to church did. They said God was a man in the sky with white hair and a beard like Santa. This seemed strange to me. When I thought of God, I imagined only mist over the pond, a sliver of moon in a dark sky, scatterings of stars, birdsong.”

“I used to always worry about money and where it would come from, but now I know that God is the supplier and the giver of good gifts.”

“In the front yard lives the oldest thing around, a white oakThat I used to say is my love for the world, That I now would just call love as it is.Belonging to nobody, no metaphor, the very.”

“From 'A Bowl Fallen From the Roof'Be quiet now and wait.It may be that the ocean one,the one we desire so to move into and become,desires us out here on land a little longer,going our sundry ways to the shore.-Rumi”

“I'm seein' the syphilitic afterbirth of a Mongolian clusterfuck, is what I see there.”

“Though his health and family had been broken in the process, he'd found his purpose in life — to share the ancient key discovered anew in the garden: if we feed the earth, it will feed us.I see that is the secret, too, to living. Though the earth demands its sacrifices, spring will always return”