7. Our monkey-minds are like these agitated monsters that are wanting this and collecting that, always grabbing, grabbing, grabbing. The process of cooling out that agitation takes time, and that’s hard for the agitated mind to accept. But the spiritual journey will teach us patience if it teaches us nothing else. –Ram Dass
107. If our present suffering ever leads to a revival, this will not be brought about through slogans but in silence and moral loneliness, through pain, misery, and terror, in the profoundest depths of each man’s spirit. –Simone Weil
207. To put it simply: I have read everything that Jerry [Rothenberg] has written, translated or edited, and I still read it all the time. He is the rare poet whose last book is his best book, and whose next book I’ll read the day I get it. –Eliot Weinberger
307. All his energies, like those of every soldier, were unconsciously directed to restraining himself from contemplating the horror of his position. –Leo Tolstoy
407. I suppose that what in other men is religion is in me love of nature. –Henry David Thoreau
507. The following of Jesus for the sake of the kingdom helps us to describe how we now must walk: building the kingdom and bearing with the anti-kingdom. –Jon Sobrino
