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Eating Head
“Gringo watching,” I call it. I’ve been living in Mexico on and off for twenty years, and slowly I’m developing this prejudice, this terrible prejudice, against Americans. “They’re so pale and wan — in such a hurry,” I think, trying to forget I’m one of them.
August 1990Sunbeams
August 1990Hell is made up of yearnings. The wicked don’t roast on beds of nails; they sit on comfortable chairs and are tortured with yearnings.
Sunbeams
July 1990It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment. What creates despair is the imagination, which pretends there is a future, and insists on predicting millions of moments, thousands of days, and so drains you that you cannot live the moment at hand.
Progress And Other Lies
An Interview With Thomas Berry
The root of our contemporary industrial pathology is what I call a deep, hidden rage in the Western world against the human condition. We are devastating the planet in an orgy of destructiveness. We refuse to accept anything in its natural state.
July 1990Sunbeams
May 1990Heaven and Hell are in the present moment, and we are either in Heaven or Hell as we live out our lives each day.
May 1990
From My Notebook
The day with its big arms around me, whispering in my ear.
May 1990
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