Worldly Connection Quotes

‎Dancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body to hang suspended between the worlds.

The point of meditation is not merely to be an honest or good person in the conventional sense, trying only to maintain our security. We must begin to become compassionate and wise in the fundamental sense, open and relating to the world as it is.

This world is inescapably linked to the motions of the worlds above. All power in this world is ruled by these options.

Nothing determines me from outside, not because nothing acts upon me, but, on the contrary, because I am from the start outside myself and open to the world.

Sure, sometimes I get teased for being the guy who likes everything, but I don't think of myself as someone apart from this world.

You don't have to save the world, but you can be in the world-that's where the beauty comes from.

The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of every man's life; and until he has realized it, he is not a complete human being, has not entered into possession of all his powers.

I thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world.

The novel remains for me one of the few forms where we can record man's complexity and the strength and decency of his longings. Where we can describe, step by step, minute by minute, our not altogether unpleasant struggle to put ourselves into a viable and devout relationship to our beloved and mistaken world.

So let my hands and my face make their way in this world, let my hungry eyes see, my tongue taste.