Lovingkindness

Begin with fish and go upwards to grasshoppers.

Daylight comes up a dirt road like a man coming out of the mountains. The known universe is filled with dots of bright light and intermittent darkness in which the intelligent life of indigenous peoples is fulfilled. And we are all indigenous peoples.

The name of the game is expansion, not contraction. There's still plenty of space for poems and folk music, and we'll never run out of numbers.

Solitude does the writing; words are mere tidbits.

Let everything learned from philosophy leave you; move into your heart where you can live tax-free.

It's quite possible god drives a gold Volvo. It's also quite possible it's all a magic trick, like looking out at the landscape and thinking you see deer when everything is deer colored.

Hold as fast to the sight of the cottonwood trees by the river as the cottonwoods hold birds.

Ok, so it's dark and nobody knows where the moon is. Neither do we get what we think we're getting, and neither do those we live with. Refrain from making big distinctions; if you know what you know there's no need to call him 'asshole' or her 'bitch'.

If you lie and say you love the world, you'll have the world to yourself allright but be quite lonely. If you love the world the stars will come down and paint your face Nez Perce and lend you a beautiful horse.