When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizing that there are some really amazing and interesting things to look at, even if it may just be something so simple as a wall being covered up by paint.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.