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I've come to see conspiracy theories as the refuge of those who have lost their natural curiosity and ability to cope with change.

The fact that one people's frontier is usually another's homeland has been mostly overlooked.

To be an American is to move on, as if we could outrun change. To attach oneself to place is to surrender to it, and suffer with it.

Who can be good, if not made so by loving? - St. Augustine

Any life lived attentively is disillusioning as it forces us to know us as we are.

Being closed in makes us edgy because it reminds us of our vulnerability before the elements; we can't escape the fact that life is precarious.

Only Christ could have brought us all together, in this place, doing such absurd but necessary things.

From Return of Swamp Thing
It's the old impasse:
I don't know what to wait for.

The often heard lament, 'I have so little time,' gives the lie to the
delusion that the daily is of little significance.

There are men I could spend eternity with. But not this life.

All of cleanliness is neither embraced nor denied by the taking of cold baths.

I was taught that I had to 'master' subjects. But who can 'master' beauty, or peace, or joy?

I am learning to see loneliness as a seed that, when planted deep enough, can grow into writing that goes back out into the world.

Pay close attention to objects, events and natural phenomenon that would otherwise get chewed up in the daily grind.

An old farmer once asked my husband and me how long we'd been in the country. "Five years," we answered. "Well, then," he said, "you've seen rain.

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

If we are lucky, we can give in and rest without feeling guilty. We can stop doing and concentrate on being.

Not money, or success, or position or travel or love makes happiness,
service is the secret.

Anyone who listens to the world, anyone who seeks the sacred in the ordinary events of life, has problems about how to believe.

And a lot he knows about office work, not.

Listening to Jeremiah is one hell of a way to get your blood going in the morning; it puts caffeine to shame.

When you come to a place where you have to left or right,' says Sister Ruth, 'go straight ahead.

Because we are made in God's image, in fleeing from a relationship with a loving God, we are also running from being our most authentic selves.

Men are more conventional than women and much slower to change their ideas.

I write what I would like to read.

In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

Over and over again mediocrity is promoted because real worth isn't to be found.

The High Plains, the beginning of the desert West, often act as a crucible for those who inhabit them.

Well, they tell us meat isn't good for us anyway!

Peace - that was the other name for home.

... religious traditions build up meaning only over time and in a communal context. They can't be purchased like a burger or a pair of shoes.

Wariness about change is a kind of prairie wisdom.

But in order to have an adult faith, most of us have to outgrow and unlearn much of what we were taught about religion.

In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.

Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?

Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.

Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.

I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes the life out of them.

There seems to be so much more winter than we need this year.

I was vaguely attracted to both library science and accounting, for the way that these disciplines impose order on chaos.

The ordinary activities I find most compatible with contemplation are walking, baking bread, and doing laundry.

It's all so beautiful ... the spring ... and books and music and fires ... Why aren't they enough?

One may have been a fool, but there's no foolishness like being bitter.

Friendship is an art, and very few persons are born with a natural gift for it.

Like an exasperating but invaluable friend, the Bible keeps bringing me back to my senses, often in bracing (and comical) ways.

This is a God who is not identified with the help of a dictionary but through a relationship.

Traversing a slow page, to come upon a lode of the pure shining metal is to exult inwardly for greedy hours.

Poets and monks ... We're both sort of peripheral to the world.

Here we discover the paradox of the contemplative life, that the desert of solitude can be the school where we learn to love others.