My sure-fire way to accomplish little: Try to do do everything. (time-tested and enduring)

A particularly disturbing form of intellectual dishonesty is to pretend that I do not know what I actually know because of what it asks of me.

“I always wanted to be somebody. I see now I should have been more specific.” -Lily Tomlin

Spent a sunny afternoon with Thomas Merton at his hermitage in the Kentucky woods. He let silence do the talking.  

In stillness a world emerges to which the only response is love.