If You Look Closely At A Tree

A Civilization Built On Dualism And War Within And Between Persons, One That Puts Its Most Creative Minds And Its Best Engineers To Sadistic Work Building More And More Destructive Weapons, Is No Civilization At All. It Needs A Radical Transformation From The Heart Outwards. It Needs To Outgrow And Outlaw War Just As In The Last Century It Outlawed Slavery. The Human Race Has Outgrown War, But It Hardly Knows It Yet.

We Must Work On Our Souls, Enlarging And Expanding Them. We Do So By Experiencing All Of Life-the Beauty And The Joy As Well As The Grief And Pain. Soul Work Requires Paying Attention To Life, To The Laughter And The Sorrow, The Enlightening And The Frightening, The Inspiring And The Silly.

I Didn't Learn To Swim Until I Was 21 Or Something Because I Grew Up In The Mountains In Wyoming And All The Water Is Glacier Runoff And Cold.

I Turn A Lot Of Stuff Down - Big, Big Movies, The Kind I Wouldn't Want To Go To The Cinema To See.

We All Share Beauty. It Strikes Us Indiscriminately. There Is No End To The Beauty For The Person Who Is Aware. Even The Cracks Between The Sidewalk Contain Geometric Patterns Of Amazing Beauty. If We Take Pictures Of Them And Blow Up The Photographs, We Realize We Walk On Beauty Every Day, Even When Things Seem Ugly Around Us.