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God is the evolutionary impulse of the universe. God is infinite creativity, infinite love, infinite compassion, infinite caring.
We can shift from time-bound awareness into timeless awareness . . . to the ecstasy that can only be found in the present moment.
In our house, some of our favourite recipes just happen to be vegetarian, but I still enjoy meat and I believe very much in meat.
My unique contribution to the fitness industry is bringing fitness into the home through cable, VHS, DVD and now digital formats.
I love handfuls of almonds, laced with wasabi flavor - because it is sinus clearing and satisfies that salty craving with a kick!
This is your one chance. Tell me where the key is." "Okay." Serpine raised an eyebrow. "Really?" "No, only joking. Do your worst.
The crown could go to a person with the most talent. But how could ‘most talent’ be determined? So Indian society settled on age.
If ye loved him, he must ha' been a good man.' 'Yes, he...was.' 'Then I shall do my best to honor his spirit by serving his wife.
I don't plan the books ahead of time. It's not like Harry Potter. I don't work in a straight line. I don't write with an outline.
Write that novel. Start that business you've always wanted to. The ultimate high of life is the commitment to pursuing something.
Poetry can be the bridge, the crossover point in the mind between the physical and the spiritual. A place where the two can meet.
The bridge to Coronado Island off San Diego was built because the mob had a hotel there and needed a way to get people out there.
Great writers know what to cut out. It's the same in life. Clear ambitions. Clear relationships. This is the stuff of good story.
We don't know how much we are capable of loving until the people we love are being taken away, until a beautiful story is ending.
The purpose of schools should not be to prepare students for more school. We should be seeking to have fully engaged students now
It's so easy to get caught up in doing and achieving that we often neglect to make time to be with the people we care about most.
Never be afraid of failure or disappointment, because those are just temporary experiences on the path to your dreams coming true
The character of a whole society is the cumulative result of countless small actions, day in and day out, of millions of persons.
If you've been married for 400 years, as I have, it's nice to experience first love again and you can vicariously through a book.
Always remember, me dear, whether you're listening to a tale or telling one: Every penny piece that's struck has two sides to it.
We are all creatures of habit. We can do most things without even thinking about them; our bodies take charge and do them for us.
We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.
The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction.
The Truth is inseparable from who you are. Yes, you are the Truth. If you look for it elsewhere, you will be deceived every time.
The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future — which, of course, can only be experienced as the Now
A practice can be helpful, but didn't the Buddha compare it to a raft, suggesting it be abandoned when you reach the other shore?
Only if you resist what happens are you at the mercy of what happens, and the world will determine your happiness and unhappiness
Over the Mountains Of the Moon, Down the Valley of the Shadow, Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied,- "If you seek for Eldorado.
Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.
I come more and more to the conclusion that wilderness, in America or anywhere else, is the only thing left that is worth saving.
My cousin Elroy spent seven years as an IBM taper staring at THINK signs on the walls before he finally got a good idea: He quit.
There are only two kinds of books -- good books and the others. The good are winnowed from the bad through the democracy of time.
Men often compete with one another until the day they die. Comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.
Some books are serials, not to be mistaken for anything else. 'The Two Towers,' for example, ought never to be read in isolation.
Authors like reading. Go figure. So it's not surprising that we sometimes bog down in the research stage of new writing projects.
People often think of Haiti as a place where you're not supposed to have any joy. I wanted to show that this is a place with joy.
Imagination is really dependent on memory and observation, these things that we think of as part of nonfiction writing, actually.
When societies go backwards and slide into authoritarianism, nationalism, and tribalism, machismo and sexism are also emboldened.
To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And the cross always entails loss.
The husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the Head of the Church. And the wife is there to bless and support and help him.
I am not a therapy person, but I understand what therapy does. It's a way of translating dark thoughts into something manageable.
Usually, my husband is a pretty good rock, a pretty good sounding board... He definitely brings a center of gravity into my life.
I'm on my feet, pacing around the room, punching a fist into my palm, which I stop doing when I realise how drama queen it feels.
The world needs many more humanitarians than it needs warriors, but there can be none of the former without enough of the latter.
I'm interested in genius the way a hungry man is interested in Philadelphia cheesesteaks. I want something. I want a piece of it.
I think we’re [men and women] more similar. In that we all deal with our fantasy lives and sometimes are disappointed by reality.
There were 117 psychoanalysts on the Pan Am flight to Vienna and I'd been treated by at least six of them. And married a seventh.
I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.
Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
I finished 'America America,' and I knew I had to write another book, not just for personal reasons but because I had a contract.