"See the simple and embrace the primal ...."

“See the simple and embrace the primal, diminish the self and curb the desires.”

 Lao Tzu

"You have the energy of the sun ...."

You have the energy of the sun in you,

but you keep knotting it up at the base of your spine ....

you’ve gotten drunk on so many kinds of wine.

Taste this.  It won’t make you wild.

It’s fire.  Give up,

If you don’t understand by this time

That your living is firewood.

Rumi

"Go and re-conquer your kingdom ...."

“Go and re-conquer your kingdom, which has grown corrupted by routine.  Stop repeating the same lesson, because you won’t learn anything new that way.”

"Remember that you come to each day anew ...."

Remember that you come to each day anew, and hallow the everyday.  All real living is meeting.

Martin Buber

"Only by going alone in silence ...."

Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness.

John Muir

"All journeys eventually end in the same place ...."

“All journeys eventually end in the same place, home.”