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You will begin to see your life as an opportunity to share the special gift you alone can bestow upon the world.
You can wish for things in the future to be different, but in this moment you have to accept things as they are.
If you want to know the state of your personal consciousness, just look around and see what is happening to you.
For some, healing is too much to bear, and they hand it back, exchanging it for the fear they are accustomed to.
Our essential nature is pure consciousness, the infinite source of everything that exists in the physical world.
Wall Street is broken for sure because it succumbed to greed and corruption and pure speculation with no values.
Total self acceptance is empowering. It means allowing others to see you as they choose, without being offended.
The most good you can do for yourself spiritually is to live your life with total love, conviction, and purpose.
Most people have a time-bound awareness. And the reason is they have sacrificed their self for their self-image.
Success by its very nature demands a period of overcoming, a process by which we become strong in broken places.
I work late at night. I'm awake and nobody bothers me. It's quiet and things come and talk to me in the silence.
This journey has always been about reaching your own other shore no matter what it is, and that dream continues.
I swam. We made it, our team, from the rocks of Cuba to the beach of Florida, in squeaky-clean, ethical fashion.
Those who don't know the mistakes of the past won't be able to enjoy it when they make them again in the future.
The financial interdependence of the world's banks is like the interlocking alliances that predated World War I.
An aware parent loves all children he or she interacts with - for you are a caretaker for those moments in time.
Passion about nothing is like pouring gasoline in a car without wheels. It isn't going to lead anybody anywhere.
Books are love letters (or apologies) passed between us, adding a layer of conversation beyond our spoken words.
The bliss of the Creator forever permeates all of creation, and it is only in the forgetting that misery exists.
Knievel seemed braver and more brazen - and more unhinged - than any other athlete-cum-thrill-seeker of his era.
The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a library card.
But there's a shift happening in humanity, a shift in consciousness, happening now because it has to happen now.
The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.
Our animal friends’ non-reactive and forgiving natures can teach us positive spiritual lessons on a daily basis.
Everything is shown up by being exposed to the light, and whatever is exposed to the light itself becomes light.
Sustained enthusiasm brings into existence a wave of creative energy, and all you have to do is 'ride the wave'.
I have made no money. I am as poor now as ever I was in my life - except in hope, which is by no means bankable.
I do not believe in personal immortality; it seems so unnecessary. Show me one man who deserves to live forever.
My Aunt Ida at age eighty-three: 'Yeah,' she said, 'I'll be dead pretty soon. And frankly, I don't give a damn.'
Filling out the form: Race? Human. Religion? Paiute. Occupation? Criminal anarchy. Hobbies? Survival with honor.
The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.
In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
Happily, researchphilia is not the problem it once was. The Internet makes just-in-time research very practical.
The character of our praying will determine the character of our preaching. Light praying makes light preaching.
I was able to not fold and go in a corner because I had my writing as therapy, but also as my tool for struggle.
When we advance a little into life, we find that the tongue of man creates nearly all the mischief of the world.
The moment passes. There is no point in regretting irreversible decisions—one has to live with them, and we try.
I think that's what fiction writing is actually all about. It's about trying to solve problems in creative ways.
No one whose first concern is feeling good can be a disciple. We are called to carry a cross and to glorify God.
In whatever God does in the course of our lives, he gives us, through the experience, some power to help others.
If you get divorced in New York, you go into therapy and will talk to anybody you meet on the sidewalk about it.
I would love to spend time with Donald Trump. I would tell him what I think. He would take me out in 30 minutes.
Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.
She was mine and not-mine all at once. She was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen and the most terrifying.
I believe I belong to the last literary generation, the last generation, that is, for whom books are a religion.
To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.
You idiot!" She spat, flattening her ears. "What are you doing in my territory?" "Drowning?" Replied Graystripe.
Honey, nobody ever knows someone completely. You have to just enjoy what you do know and have faith in the rest.
Do not adjust your sandals while passing through a melon-field, nor yet arrange your hat beneath an orange-tree.
I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense.