Latest Quotes

“Human consciousness is just a way for plants to move plant and bacterial genes around. But we have apparently forgotten this and take ourselves to be the center of planetary telos.”

— Richard M. Doyle, Darwin's Pharmacy: Sex, Plants, and the Evolution of the Noösphere

“When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.”

— Paulo Coelho, The Zahir

“We are fleshbots in love with an inflatable ego doll: ourselves.”

— Richard M. Doyle, Darwin's Pharmacy: Sex, Plants, and the Evolution of the Noösphere

“If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible.”

— Paulo Coelho, By The River Pedra I Sat Down And Wept

“The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.”

— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“People have three spiritual states. In the first they have no thought of God at all, but worship and pay service to everything else: friends and lovers, wealth and children, stones and clods. Once they gain a little knowledge and awareness, then they serve nothing but God. Yet, after learning and se…”

— Jalal al-Din Rumi, Discourses of Rumi

“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”

— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”

— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“History is the track in the snow left by creativity wandering in the Divine Imagination.”

— Rupert Sheldrake, Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, Chaos, Creativity, and Cosmic Consciousness

“We have lost touch with chaos because it is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, the ego. The ego’s existence is defined in terms of control. The endless modeling process that the ego carries out is an effort to fight the absence of closure. The ego wants closure. It wants a complete expla…”

— Rupert Sheldrake, Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, Chaos, Creativity, and Cosmic Consciousness

“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, this is what it is to be happy.”

— Sylvia Plath, Bell Jar

“When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”

— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.”

— John Muir, Our National Parks

“Break my heart open. Watch what poetry comes from it. Watch how I grow fiercely into someone who will not shake because of your name.”

— Lora Mathis, Surprising Myself

“On golden summer’s forests green And what a gush of song is given To welcome in that light serene A fresh wind waves the clustering roses And through the open window sighs”

— Emily Brontë, The Complete Poems

“Gardening is an opening of worlds-of worlds within worlds-beginning beginning with the world at one's feet. To become conscious of what one is treading on requires that one delve into the ground's organic underworld, so as to appreciate, in an engaged way, the soil's potential for fostering life.”

— Robert Pogue Harrison, Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition

“Mushrooms fungi a manuscript in the forest. Time myelin. Here are cucumbers. Wet. Here are carrots. Stiff. Eat these tomatoes. Bloody. Lollygagging is a butterfly in the field. Radius magnifies. The creek filled with bubbling water. A bluejay. A garden. A hand. The doe runs by and glimpses the babbl…”

— Pat Pace, The Poetics Of Love

“People will kill you. Over time. They will shave out every last morsel of fun in you with little, harmless sounding phrases that people uses every day, like: 'Be realistic!”

— Dylan Moran, Dylan Moran: What It Is (2009)

“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.”

— Angela Davis, Talk At Southern Illinois University Carbondale

“The questions are always more important than the answers.”

— Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture