Samara Bay: “When we tell a story about a tiny moment, and how it impacted us, it is actually the most revealing thing of our character we could possibly do. Where we come from does...

“Forcing ourselves, as intensives, to take time and energy and focus never goes well. Expansives call that discipline, but we call that torture. Don’t torture yourself.” On the virtues and challenges of taking one’s time-...

“You can do a lot things with ash, but what you can’t do is get more heat out of ash. Because all of the heat, all of the calories stored, have been released. Often we...

“There was one seed that just got it into its head that it was going to take over the world. And it did.” Growing things that will thrive in the conditions that exist; and also,...

“If you have complicated grain, if you’re complicated, you need extremely sharp tools and extremely skilled craftspeople…. You need to understand the sharpening as a part of the process, not an interruption of the process.”...

“Here’s what I want to give you. I want to give you the low slant of light as fall creeps in. I want to give you a double handful of freshly picked raspberries too soft...

“When it comes time for us to harvest, when the air and the sun and the water and the sky all shift in the direction of fall- it is also time to turn toward rest.”...

“We’re going to build connections, we’re going to build community. We’re going to build common care into the fabric of our lives. And I know this sounds like more work. But this is the nourishment...

“My most effective habit building behavior is to build it around pleasure. I have to tap into that future pleasure, that sensation of possibility of pleasure, in order to build the habit.” On building habits...

“Reminders that I have choices have saved my life, literally and figuratively, so many times. You have choices. Remember, always, that you have choices.” Our environments are full of urgency, real and manufactured. The manufactured...