life is not an intellectual endeavour.

With lived experience, and then you can write.

I really wanted to be a writer for all of those years when I was doing those things, but I couldn't have been. I could string sentences together, but they didn't have that sort of light behind them that real writing is supposed to have, which can only, I think, come from lived experience.

The world is much more enchanted and mysterious when we leave it unnamed. Naming things is an act of exhaustion: it exhausts possibility and it fossilizes what should remain in motion.

The project I'm doing is basically turning myself into a certain type of person who is able to have these thoughts. The essays are kind of just exhaust from the project. The work is growing emotionally and intellectually in such a way, and just going out into the world, talking to people, reading, looking at things, and becoming the kind of mind

Arguing about such things as love, spirit, and soul is like pounding your finger with a rock to understand the sense of touch

of that navel-gazing search for meaning that I did in my twenties probably made little sense to Dad. Just take a part of the world that you love, or depend on, and make it more beautiful, and protect it. It is that simple.

All experiences are transitory.

The wise man neither seeks or rejects them.

In this manner, one remains rooted in the unchanging, the stage upon which the change occurs.

For many, what they believe to be their castle, is in fact their jail.

The addition to the drug called intellect.

Results in analysis of everything.

All this perusal, evaluation and

I try to avoid sitting down too much and just reflecting on my feelings and ruminating. Instead, I take a few minutes here and there to notice what pulls on me and then go out trying things, and then you get feedback

introspection for doing.

To define something is, quite literally, to set its limits—to end it. To define something is to interrupt its depth.

Naming is a form of control masquerading as care or intimacy, I don’t think it actually brings us closer to the thing but it replaces the thing with a version we can handle, process, and apply. What can’t be expressed efficiently is... See more

I think a lot of people do that as kids. You see something, like an abandoned house, and you want to climb into it. Then you just do that, discover things, and keep doing things. I think it's mostly just protecting something that a lot of people have as kids.