What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly
The way to avoid responsibility is to say, 'I've got responsibilities.'
Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift, passed civilization by, rescued the planet from intelligence and handed it to love.
Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
Everything is exactly as it is for a reason.
The crumb on your table is no mystical reminder of this morning's cookie,
it is there because you have chosen not to remove it.
No exceptions.
Jonathon Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and with these gone from his thought, he lived a fine life indeed.
We teach best what we need to learn most.
Whatever enchants, also guides and protects. Passionately obsessed by anything we love- sailboats, airplanes, ideas- an avalanche of magic flattens the way ahead, levels rules, reasons, dissents... bears us with it over chasms, fears, doubts.
Whatever enchants, also guides and protects.
"The only true law is that which leads to freedom," Jonathan said. "There is no other."
