Paul Fleischman
I actually went on a vegan diet. So I was nagging myself there. I don't nag other people about it. It was sort of an interesting experiment, and I found it wasn't that hard at all.Collection: Diet
You can't see Canada across lake Erie, but you know it's there. It's the same with spring. You have to have faith, especially in Cleveland.Collection: Spring
The human being is constantly torn from calm and peace of simple existence by two things; wanting what you don't have, or disliking what you have.Collection: Peace
A picture tells a thousand words. But you get a thousand pictures from someone's voice.Collection: Voice
Television, I'm afraid, has isolated us more than race, class, or ethnicity.Collection: Race
Mindfulness, as defined by the Buddha, means awareness of incessant change, of arising and vanishing, inside of your own body, which is the ultimate reality of your own life.Collection: Mean
That small circle of earth became a second home to both of us. Gardening boring? Never! It has surprise, tragedy, startling developments - a soap opera growing out of the ground. I'd forgotten that tremolo of expectation produced by a tiny forest of sprouts.Collection: Home
The object in America is to avoid contact, to treat all as foes unless they're known to be friends. Here you have a million crabs living in a million crevices. ... But the garden's greatest benefit, I feel, as not relief to the eyes, but to make the eyes sees our neighbors.Collection: Life
A fact bobbed up from my memory, that the ancient Egyptians prescribed walking through a garden as a cure for the mad. It was a mind-altering drug we took daily.Collection: Gratitude
Radio listeners are voyeurs: lurking, invisible, eavesdropping.Collection: Radio