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In my own little way, I feel like I'm part of a group of writers who care deeply about pushing the essay forward.
I have a teaching job that allows me to pay the rent and affords me to, frankly, write the books I want to write.
Sports movies are often very good at dramatizing the intersection of public and private realms: the body politic.
You shoot another guy—well, okay, this is Baltimore. You shoot three guys, it’s time to admit you have a problem.
True beauty comes from the inside out. It emerges from proper thinking, as well as proper nutrition and exercise.
Chaga is the most powerful cancer-fighting herb known and fights all kinds of radiation damage to healthy tissue.
The calcium theory has probably done more to damage our health than any single theory in the history of humanity.
I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years.
I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.
Right now, there is a stronger, more vibrant, more inspired version of you that is wanting and waiting to emerge.
It isn't what happens to us in life that creates our joy, but rather how we respond to what happens in our lives.
Books are mind reading devices; they allow us free access to the thoughts and dreams of people we have never met.
A person who exhibits both positive and negative qualities, strengths and weaknesses, is not flawed but complete.
When you allow yourself to be unpredictable, you step from the known into the unknown, where anything is possible
You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.
Miracles happen every day. They bubble up from their hidden source, surround us with opportunities and disappear.
When we decide to take back our own power, we discover that the true solver of problems is intuition, not reason.
Being excited about what we do every day and sharing our gifts with the world is how we cultivate joy and energy.
Neurons that fire together wire together. You can rewire your brain for higher consciousness by focusing on love.
What you experience as "reality," including your physical body and aging, is shaped by your habits of perception.
The world consists of images on a screen, and consciousness is the steady light that emanates from the projector.
The scenery is time bound but the seer is timeless. You are the timeless seer in the midst of time bound scenery.
Hecate teaches us that the way to the vision that inspires renewal is to be found in moving through the darkness.
You said I was your number-one pick." "And you are. In our hearts. Alphabetically, though, Dusk comes before you.
The Baron, unfortunately, turns it all the way up to eleven." "Seriously? Because, you know, that's one more evil
Here she is,” her mum said, cooing at the baby, “my special girl.” “Oh, cheers,” Valkyrie said, rolling her eyes.
We have been too kind to those who are killing the planet. We have been inexcusably, unforgivably, insanely kind.
Doctrine is to be the balm of a healing experience of God, not a theological scalpel to wound and exclude people.
That's what marriage is good for; it makes a sacrament out of things ye'd otherwise have to confess. Jamie Fraser
Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable.
A good coach is interested in how tough you are, how you react to adversity, how quickly you get back on defense.
Gift to the creative artist: positive images in, positive images out. On the other hand, garbage in, garbage out.
I had always suspected language was quite limited in its ability to communicate the intricate mysteries of truth.
Stubbornness is a positive quality of presidential leadership - if you're right about what you're stubborn about.
Voluntary simplicity has more to do with the state of mind than a person's physical surroundings and possessions.
Every year lays more earth upon us, which weighs us down from aerial regions, till we go under the earth at last.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
It's not harder to hear the inner voice when you're in a relationship, but it's more of a challenge to follow it.
[Relationships] do not cause pain and unhappiness. They bring out the pain and unhappiness that is already in you
Acceptance means: For now, this is what this situation, this moment, requires me to do, and so I do it willingly.
The future does not exist, because nobody has ever experienced it. You can only ever experience a present moment.
Enlightenment means choosing to dwell in a state of presence rather than in time. It means saying yes to what is.
So the single most vital step on your journey towards enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind.
...there are two ways of being unhappy: One is not getting what you want, and the other is getting what you want.
To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.
If you are not taking responsibility for your state of consciousness, you are not taking responsibility for life.
The whole world changes when there's presence - sunlight everywhere - because you're not separate from the world.
Whenever you deeply accept this moment as it is - no matter what form it takes - you are still, you are at peace.
Stress is extremely harmful to the body. Even mainstream medicine is recognizing how many diseases stress causes.
If you're regularly willing to give a critique, but not willing to take one, you're not a leader, you're a cynic.