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And read… read all the time… read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life.
In time I began to understand that it's when you start writing that you really find out what you don't know and need to know.
He who harbors hatred and bitterness injures himself far more than the one towards whom he manifests these evil propensities.
Sincere prayer implies that when we ask for any virtue or blessing, we should work for the blessing and cultivate the virtue.
The world is hungry to hear the truth. ... We have it. Are we equal to the task-to the responsibility God has placed upon us?
The biggest issue by far is that carbohydrates are absolutely at the cornerstone of all of our major degenerative conditions.
You know, we think about addiction as a morally reprehensible choice, but addicts act crazy because, in a way, that they are.
Stoicism is of no use to me whatsoever. What I'm a big believer in is talking about everything until you're blue in the face.
The reigning mythology of the Northwest is obviously nature, and the reigning mythology of the Northeast corridor is culture.
When it's between the covers of a book, content is perceived to have literary substance - or more so that it might otherwise.
If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different publisher.
These days, people spent too much time striving to understand their feelings - and then ended up with none that were genuine.
Before you begin your day: Take a moment of silence and meditation, and give yourself permission to have all that you desire.
Meditation is like a giant broom for sweeping away any stagnant or blocked energy that you may have buried deep in your body.
Without silence, there cannot be any real appreciation in life, which is as delicate in its inner fabric as a closed rosebud.
The next thing you think, the next action you take, will either create a new possibility for you, or it will repeat the past.
Love is an aspect of being, and when you act from being, the power you draw on is limitless because it comes from the source.
Trust that your soul has a plan, and even if you can't see it completely, know that everything will unfold as it is meant to.
When we connect to the infinite source of wisdom within, creative new ideas, opportunities, and healing spontaneously unfold.
Instead of resisting any emotion, the best way to dispel it is to enter it fully, embrace it and see through your resistance.
The purpose of meditation is to stop thinking for a time, wait for the fog of thought to thin, and glimpse the spirit within.
Yes, in all my research, the greatest leaders looked inward and were able to tell a good story with authenticity and passion.
People who continue to nurture long-term and new friendships as they grow older are more likely to enjoy health and vitality.
Remember this: Beliefs divide, values unite. When we go to the values that underlie so many religious beliefs, they unite us.
What happens is consciousness operates in mysterious ways. One of those ways is that the old paradigm suddenly starts to die.
The deep problem facing everyone is how to break free when being a prisoner is the only comfortable way you know how to live.
It's an embarrassment that we don't have a broad enough consensus among political leaders that true reform should take place.
For me, having it all - if one wants to define it at all - is the magical time when what you want and what you have match up.
If fitness came in a bottle,everyone would have a great body. Skip the quick fixes;hard work is what ensures lasting results!
To say that I enjoyed writing... is like saying I enjoy having fingers and toes. It's difficult to imagine life without them.
Valkyrie, I hate to be the one to tell you this, but your friend is most likely dead.” “Of course he’s dead. He’s a skeleton.
You look angry," he said. "You put me on hold." "For a very good reason." "You put me," she said very, very slowly, "on hold.
Within infinite myths lies the Eternal Truth Who sees it all? Varuna has but a thousand eyes Indra, a hundred And I, only two
If you don't have imagination, you stop being human; animals don't have imagination; Alzheimer's is the death of imagination.
I thought at first that I might write mysteries, but then I said, 'Mysteries have plots, and I'm not sure I can do that yet.'
Wonder is a bulky emotion. When you let it fill your heart and mind, there isn't room for anxiety, distress or anything else.
We evolved as creatures knitted into the fabric of nature, and without its intimate truths, we can find ourselves unraveling.
If you have a friend, a good friend, a woman you love, and you learn she’s done something abominable, do you stop loving her?
Psychotherapy may begin with the primitive, but it must end with the divine, for both are integral factors in the human mind.
This is a great tool for students as the book gets right to the heart of learning how to learn and engaging your whole brain.
Learning should take place when it is needed, when the learner is interested, not according to some arbitrary, fixed schedule
And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it.
I think understanding your life as a story is a really terrific way of kind of knowing where you are and knowing who you are.
You are more powerful than any fearful force. Your Divine willingness can out-will any darkness that the world has ever seen.
If the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, why would we ask those who do not fear the Lord to teach our children?
Born in the Flint, Michigan, big boat sailing on the Great Lakes and skiing in the winter was how most of my youth was spent.
Failures . . . believe that their lives are shaped by circumstances ... by things that happen to them ... by exterior forces.
Every great accomplishment of mankind has been preceded by an extended period, often over many years, of concentrated effort.
People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.
When this delusion of utter separateness underlies and governs whatever I think, say, and do, what kind of world do I create?