"We slay ignorance ...."

“We slay ignorance with the sword 

and face our opponents: us”

"Why not touch things that we hate ...."

 

“Why not touch things that we hate and turn them upside down and inside out?”

Alber Elbaz

"Man follows Earth ...."

Man follows Earth

Earth follows Heaven

Heaven follows Tao

Tao follows Nature

"... all things must accord with the natural world ...."

"It is in vain to dream of a wildness ...."

It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves.  There is none such.  It is the bog in our brain and bowels, the primitive vigor of Nature in us,  that inspires that dream.

Henry David Thoreau

"One rock is a whole mountain range ...."

“One rock is a whole mountain range.

 One person is the universe.”

"In so many ways ...."

“In so many ways, we are the same.

Our differences are unique treasures.

We have, we are, a mosaic of gifts

To nurture, to offer, to accept ...."

Mattie J T Stepanek

"I have a 'moment' with God ...."

“I have a ‘moment’ with God during which there is no room for either message-bearing prophet or angel close to God to enter with me”.