"And the moment you stop thinking, you come into immediate contact with what Korzybski called so delightfully “the unspeakable world”—that is to say, the nonverbal world. Some people would call it the physical world. But these words—“physical,” “nonverbal,” “material”—are all conceptual. And [CLAP] is not a concept. It’s not a noise, either. This. [CLAP] Get that? So when you are awake to that world, you suddenly find that all the so-called differences between self and other, life and death, pleasure and pain, are all conceptual, and they’re not there. They don’t exist at all in that world which is [CLAP]." -Alan Watts, 'ZEN BONES,' 1967, at 00:17:31

“Though the body grows old and bears the ache and weight of many days, the life by which it lives is young, for life is young or it does not exist, is not even dead. And so as I walk in the land’s holy Sabbath Under the tall trees, I come at once into the old young joy that has moved me all my life to be here in the early morning light.” —Wendell Berry

"Don't lose the trail of wisdom's scent. While on this hunt, don't go astray, worrying if every little thing is good or bad. You are the traveler, you are the path, and you are the destination. Be careful never to lose the way to yourself." — Shihab al-Din Yahya Suhrawardi

Credit: Non-GMO project (Facebook) “Man, despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments, still owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.” – Paul Harvey (1978)

“Our lives are not as limited as we think they are; the world is a wonderfully weird place; consensual reality is significantly flawed; no institution can be trusted, but love does work; all things are possible; and we all could be happy and fulfilled if we only had the guts to be truly free and the wisdom to shrink our egos and quit taking ourselves so damn seriously.” —Tom Robbins

Crows in Winter ~ NC Wyeth

“A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn’t telling or teaching or ordering. Rather he seeks to establish a relationship of meaning, of feeling, of observing. We are lonesome animals. We spend all life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say — and to feel — ‘Yes, that’s the way it is, or at least that’s the way I feel it. You’re not as alone as you thought.’” - John Steinbeck