January 15th 2009

There are people who believe that American Indian culture, mostly of the past, can explain absolutely everything. It seems to me that this need to have some group or figure in which to find refuge, to look up to and idealize, is irresponsible. We cannot know what the beings on the rock were, or what they represent. All I can know is that their art is haunting.

We hurtle through this world listening, thinking, deciding. We find refuge only in ourselves.

You are what you think, the Buddha said.