“The person with the least worry over the compromises he must make is, of course, the person who doesn't compromise.”

“It made Daniel think. The people who had the least were the most willing to share. He outlined a dictum that he would believe the rest of his life: the more people have, the less the give. Similarl...”

“I don't see money as evil or good: how can illusion be evil or good? But I don't see heroin or meth as evil or good, either. Which is more addictive & debilitating, money or meth? Attachment to ill...”

“But even a medicine man like myself has to have some money, because you force me to live in your make-believe world where I can't get along without it.”

“To be the master of tomorrow's dreams, you must first be the servant of today's planning.”

“It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.”

“This kind of renunciation, in fact, has often been the strength, born of necessity, of the world's disinherited, of those who do not fit in with their surroundings or with their own body or with th...”

“The ascetic remembrance of death is opposed to akedia, to anxiety, to depression, and becomes a powerful reminder of eternity, its joyful nostalgia.”

“Too many Christians reverse New Covenant commands as we seek, through condemnation of the world, the return of the never-existent, demonic myth of the "Christian Nation"!”