We [Americans] are game-playin...

We [Americans] are game-playing, fun-loving creatures; we are the otters of the universe.

Don't fear change. It's always...

Don't fear change. It's always for the best.

Evolution made civilization st...

Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift, passed civilization by, rescued the planet from intelligence and handed it to love.

I AM! YOU ARE! AND LOVE: IS AL...

I AM! YOU ARE! AND LOVE: IS ALL: THAT MATTERS!

Then be sure of one thing:

Then be sure of one thing:
The Is has imagined it quite a bit better than you have.
The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't.

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The best way to avoid responsi...

The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, 'I've got responsibilities.

Everything of this life as a m...

Everything of this life as a mortal is fiction. It seems real, but...

Fly free and happy beyond birt...

Fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever, and we'll meet now and then when we wish, in the midst of the one celebration that never can end.

Your whole body, from wingtip ...

Your whole body, from wingtip to wingtip,' Jonathan would say, other times, 'is nothing more than your thought itself, in a form you can see. Break the chains of your thought, and you break the chains of your body, too.

He spoke of very simple things...

He spoke of very simple things- that it is right for a gull to fly, that freedom is the very nature of his being, that whatever stands against that freedom must be set aside, be it ritual or superstition or limitation in any form. 'Set aside,' came a voice from the multitude, 'even if it be the Law of the Flock?' 'The only true law is that which leads to freedom,' Jonathan said. 'There is no other.

In the path of our happiness s...

In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime.

When we come to the last momen...

When we come to the last moment of this lifetime and we look back across it, the only thing that's going to matter is 'What is the quality of our love?'

Languages are fluffy big pillo...

Languages are fluffy big pillows stuffed between nations - what others say is muffled and nearly lost in them, and when we speak their grammar we get feathers in our mouth. It's worth it. What pleasure to phrase an idea, even in child's words, slowly, and sail it across the gulf in another language to a different-speaking human being!

The airplane is just a bunch o...

The airplane is just a bunch of sticks and wires and cloth, a tool for learning about the sky and about what kind of person I am, when I fly. An airplane stands for freedom, for joy, for the power to understand, and to demonstrate that understanding. Those things aren't destructable.

I take the paraglider to the m...

I take the paraglider to the mountain or I roll Daisy out of her hangar and I pick the prettiest part of the sky and I melt into the wing and then into the air, till I'm just soul on a sunbeam.

Flying has always been to me t...

Flying has always been to me this wonderful metaphor. In order to fly you have to trust what you can't see. Up on the mountain ridges where very few people have been I have thought back to what every flyer knows. That there is this special world in which we dwell that's not marked by boundaries, it's not a map. We're not hedged about with walls and desks. So often in an office the very worst thing that can happen is you could drop your pencil. Out there's a reminder that are a lot worse things, and a lot greater reward

Flyers fell a certain kinship ...

Flyers fell a certain kinship with the sight of the earth unencrusted by humanity, they want to see it that way in one sweeping view, in reassurance that nature still exists on her own, without a chain-link fence to hold her.

The man who flies an airplane ...

The man who flies an airplane ... must believe in the unseen.

For pilots sometimes see behin...

For pilots sometimes see behind the curtain, behind the veil of gossamer velvet, and find the truth behind man, the force behind a universe.

We thought humble and proud at...

We thought humble and proud at the same time, all at once in love again with this painful bittersweet lovely thing called flight.