I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as….

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well..

Wonder is a bulky emotion. When you let it fill your heart and mind, there isn't room for anxiety, distress or anything else..

Ecstasy is what everyone craves - not love or sex, but a hot-blooded, soaring intensity, in which being alive is a joy and a thrill. That enravishmen….

The well of nature is full today. Time to go outside and take a drink..

Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time..

Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but the sky actually begins at the earth..

We evolved as creatures knitted into the fabric of nature, and without its intimate truths, we can find ourselves unraveling..

We are defined by how we place our attention..

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between..

There is a way of beholding nature which is a form of prayer, a way of minding something with such clarity and aliveness that the rest of the world r….

People search for love as if it were a city lost beneath the desert dunes, where pleasure is the law, the streets are lined with brocade cushions, an….

I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward one another. ….

American writer 1803-1882 Play is our brain's favorite way of learning..

If a mind is just a few pounds of blood, urea, and electricity, how does it manage to contemplate itself, worry about its soul, do time-and-motion st….

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the ….

The heart is a museum, filled with the exhibits of a lifetime's loves..

Above all, we ask the poet to teach us a way of seeing..

The great affair, the love affair with life, is to live as variously as possible, to groom one's curiosity like a high-spirited thoroughbred, climb a….

We can't enchant the world, which makes its own magic; but we can enchant ourselves by paying deep attention.

As anyone who has received or dispensed psychotherapy knows, it's a profession whose mainspring is love. Nearly everyone who visits a therapist has a….