Tag: life

Each time we don’t say what we wanna say, we’re dying....

I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep....

If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit....

To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn’t just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it’s an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.”; NEH 2003 Jefferson...

I wonder if I’ll ever have to decide which is worse, life as we’re living or no life at all....

Life is an experimental journey undertaken involuntarily. It is a journey of the spirit through the material world and, since it is the spirit that travels, it is the spirit that is experienced. That is why there exist contemplative souls who...

Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?...

I know I wrote letters to people with no address on this earth, I know that you are dead. But I hear you. I hear all of you. We were here. Our lives matter....

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form....

I would not have you descend into your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful world....