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What an odd, ruminating, noisy, self-interrupting conversation we conduct with ourselves from birth to death.
Anybody else who's gotten the president of the United States elected, tell me you are better than I am at it.
It is one of the strictest conditions of initiation that occult knowledge may never be sold or used for gain.
How do you discover a need that nobody yet knows about? This is where the product breakthroughs come through.
There's a genius part of you that wants to create. That part of you wants to talk to God. Get out of the way.
Grace only sticks to our imperfections. Those who can’t accept their imperfections can’t accept grace either.
If you have a beautiful story, it has to have conflict. If you don't have conflict, it can't be a good story.
I enjoy politics, but if I had a third career - and I've had multiple careers - my third act would be acting.
Am I crazy Loretta?" "A little," she says. I glance up at her. "Sometimes we're called on to do crazy things.
Come from a place of love. Love isn't passive or shy. It's actually the most powerful energy in the universe.
The more you are focused on time-past and future-the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.
So one could say that the only real problem is dysfunctional thinking, the rest are challenges, not problems.
Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment. This is why we may also call it Presence.
I believe from what I can see there is a good chance the shift will happen in humanity before it is too late.
Most humans live in the mindset that this moment is only important because it's getting them to the next one.
The animals certainly like to be close to humans, especially as humans go through the shift in consciousness.
Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.
When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.
Decorum -- that bug-bear which deters so many from bliss until the opportunity for bliss has forever gone by.
It may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.
Poetry and preaching do not go well together; when the preacher mounts the pulpit the poet usually goes away.
We foolish mortals sometimes live through years not realizing how short life is, and that TODAY is your life.
Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.
I choose to listen to the river for a while, thinking river thoughts, before joining the night and the stars.
The function of an ideal is not to be realized but, like that of the North Star, to serve as a guiding point.
For this world that men have made, none of us is bad enough. For the world that made us, none is good enough.
Man can no more leave God out of his philosophies than he can live without his heart or see without his eyes.
Our praying, to be strong, must be buttressed by holy living. The life of faith perfects the prayer of faith.
I'm not trying to uncover the facts of my life but to discover the dramatic truth of the situations I was in.
Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.
I can feel the public side of my life and the private side of my life sort of drifting away from one another.
I have always loved reading books for children and young adults, particularly when those books are mysteries.
In love there are no penalties and no payments, and what is given is indistinguishable from what is received.
Anyone who has ever tried to plot a detective mystery knows that the hardest thing to come up with is motive.
I won't use Twitter. Twitter posts are thought-farts. I don't care about unconsidered thoughts of the moment.
I have always been drawn to coming-of-age stories and books and movies featuring compelling young characters.
A monkey glances up and sees a banana, and that's as far as he looks. A visionary looks up and sees the moon.
We find our calling or it finds us, and it's a sin against the fates not to use your talent when you have it.
The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.
A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.
I prefer to work in the morning. I get up now at five in the morning. In the morning is when I feel freshest.
I think I've become more cynical about sex. Meaning, I don't think sex in and of itself leads to an epiphany.
Everyone saves someone at least once. Just as he kills someone at least once. Even though he may not know it.
There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past.
They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.
Sometimes you know the story. Sometimes you make it up as you go along and have no idea how it will come out.
This was a big storm and he might as well enjoy it. It was ruining everything, but you might as well enjoy it
Our job is not to change people; our job is to connect people to Jesus, and it's Jesus' job to change people.
There is no risk factor at all, the odds don't matter at all, because the odds of Law of Attraction are 100%.
When you're looking so hard to get on your path, you're putting up resistance that keeps you from finding it.