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Denied dancing and musical instruments, slaves expressed a hidden tradition of musicality and poetics by tongue and signal.
It is your birthright to live a life abundant in love. Make the commitment today to open your heart and let your love flow.
Your ultimate goal in life is to become your best self. Your immediate goal is to get on the path that will lead you there.
"What is a human being, then?" "A seed." "A... seed?" "An acorn that is unafraid to destroy itself in growing into a tree."
When you follow your heart instead of worrying about how to fatten your bank account, you can attract more ways to do both.
I believe that I was a dog in a past life. That's the only thing that would explain why I like to snack on Purina Dog Chow.
God never gives us more than we can handle. Everything that comes our way is coming our way so that we can grow and evolve.
I'm dyslexic, although they didn't have a word for it when I was in grade school. The teachers said I had 'word blindness.'
Before making a decision, ask inside for guidance. Be patient and await an answer. Act only when you feel calm and certain.
Find one thing every day to forgive the other person for. Don't let them know what it is...just forgive them and let it go.
There are periods in life when you get caught up in the whole field of relativity and lose your moorings with the absolute.
The soul is a living, dynamic part of each person. It exists as consciousness and therefore must be found in consciousness.
When you feel small and weak, remind yourself that you are a child of the universe who is connected to the infinite source.
Through silence, through meditation, and through non-judgment, you will access the first law, the Law of Pure Potentiality.
Affluence, unboundedness, and abundance are our natural states. We need only to restore the memory of what we already know.
Compassion is the feeling of shared suffering. When you feel someone else's suffering, there is the birth of understanding.
The journey of prayer is nothing more or less than a gradual awakening to the reality of recognizing what is already there.
I'm well aware of the health dangers of an expanding waistline and belly fat: diabetes, heart disease, stroke, even cancer.
Some critics accuse capitalism of being a selfish system, but the selfishness is not in capitalism - it is in human nature.
No one can give you magickal powers. You have to earn them. There is only one way to do this. Practice, practice, practice!
The truth is, if what we choose to do with our lives won't make a story meaningful, it won't make a life meaningful either.
It blew my mind that what I was thinking was actually applicable to people's lives, and it certainly revolutionized family.
A white-boy attitude is 'I must exclude, denigrate, and leave behind.' They don't see it or think about it. It's a culture.
See yourself and others through the eyes of an angel and you will see a beautiful world that is light, bright, and hopeful.
For the most part Ho Chi Minh City is safe but like any large city you need to pay attention to what's going on around you.
One of the reasons I wrote 'Horse Soldiers' was to understand the world my children would inherit after the events of 2001.
We are the leaders that we have been waiting for. We are the social innovators and entrepreneurs that we have been seeking.
The simplest kind of decision is binary: that is, the question can be answered, in principle at least, by either yes or no.
Language evolves and moves on. It is an organic thing. It is not stuck in an ivory tower, hung with expensive works of art.
When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation or accept it, all else is madness.
Some people get attached to their practice. They get good at it, but even becoming a good meditator can become a hindrance.
I hold that a long poem does not exist. I maintain that the phrase, "a long poem," is simply a flat contradiction in terms.
Believe me, there exists no such dilemma as that in which a gentleman is placed when he is forced to reply to a blackguard.
It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.
The well-being of individual persons in any society varies inversely with the money at the disposal of the political class.
One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill.
Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.
Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.
Love is like the rain. It comes in a drizzle sometimes. Then it starts pouring and if you're not careful it will drown you.
When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity.
Most Americans have probably heard the song 'Santa Claus Is Coming to Town' about a billion times in the supermarket alone.
I love the novelist's freedom of going into different people's subjectivity and being able to work with them as characters.
A prayerful heart and an obedient heart will learn, very slowly and not without sorrow, to stake everything on God Himself.
Ordinary work, which is what most of us do, most of the time, is ordained by God every bit as much as is the extraordinary.
We fundamentalists are a pack of mood-loving showoffs. I'm sure the Minor Prophets would have found subject for correction.
Maybe the difference between first marriage and second marriage is that the second time at least you know you are gambling.
Not even a maggot is an it, and to refer to any animal in that manner is an affectation, an ignorant stab at science-speak.
So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.
Ministers of God's choosing are engaged in a great work. They are warring not merely against men, but Satan and his angels.
He looked so lost, so soulful, so lonely. I wanted him to kiss me now. I wanted to let him know I was his for all eternity.