The sun is roaring, it fills to bursting each crystal of snow. I flush with feeling, moved beyond my comprehension, and once again, the warm tears fr….

In fiction, you have a rough idea what's coming up next - sometimes you even make a little outline - but in fact you don't know. Each day is a whole ….

I can watch elephants (and elephants alone) for hours at a time, for sooner or later the elephant will do something very strange... There is mystery….

I was just very interested in the American frontier and the growth of capitalism - those enormous fortunes that were being made, more often than not,….

It is related that Sakyamuni [the historical Buddha] once dismissed as of small consequence a feat of levitation on the part of a disciple, and cried….

And only the enlightened can recall their former lives; for the rest of us, the memories of past existences are but glints of light, twinges of longi….

The ancient intuition that all matter, all "reality," is energy, that all phenomena, including time and space, are mere crystallizations of mind, is ….

You do your best work when you're not conscious of yourself..

Be light, light, light - full of light!.

Have you seen the snow leopard? No! Isn't that wonderful?.

I have never figured out how women work but I do know that their skin color has no significance. Black or white, every last one is pretty pink on the….

Figures dark beneath their loads pass down the far bank of the river, rendered immortal by the streak of sunset upon their shoulders.

This world is painted on a wild dark metal.

Anyone who thinks they can save the world is both wrong and dangerous.

For some time I watch the coming of the night? Above is the glistening galaxy of childhood, now hidden in the Western world by air pollution and the ….

When we are mired in the relative world, never lifting our gaze to the mystery, our life is stunted, incomplete; we are filled with yearning for that….

There's an elegiac quality in watching [American wilderness] go, because it's our own myth, the American frontier, that's deteriorating before our ey….

It's a simplification to say that the men [during Stone Age] went to war to maintain their dominance over the women. The men would help dig agricultu….

Soon the child’s clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions, preconceptions, and abstractions. Simple free being becomes encrusted with the burd….

Simplicity is the whole secret of well-being..

Alec Wilkinson is a spare, clear, and lucid writer who works in stylistic simplicity with material that is not simple at all..