spirituality
I love humans—though it’s a gauge of my spiritual condition how friendly I am with my fellow New Yorkers.
“Raging Into God,” New York Magazine, by Boris Kachka, November 8, 2009.
Writing about spiritual stuff for a secular audience is like doing card tricks on the radio.
“The Art of Memoir No. 1,” The Paris Review, Winter 2009, No. 191.
One drop of water can accomplish very little, but hundreds of millions of drops can cut through rock or, indeed, change the face of the Earth.
Mantras: Words of Power (Kootenay Bay, British Columbia: Timeless Books, 2005), 25.
The way to know the shape of things in advance is to listen to seers and mystics instead of to economists and tacticians. The world had ample warning of every event which it has greeted with such gasps of surprise in the past twelve months. Part of the preparation for the perfect world society will be the recognition of seers. It will be required for the President of the United States that he read one poem and one parable or fable a day, in addition to the editorials in the Times.
“Compost,” in One Man’s Meat (New York: Harper & Row, 1944), 164.