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I found a strawberry blossom in a rock. I uprooted it rashly and felt as if I had been committing an outrage, so I planted it again.
I'm really interested in how people face existential crises and either overcome them or don't, and in how the human psyche responds.
If your attitude toward the world is good, you will obtain good results. If your attitude is excellent, excellent will your results.
If you spend an extra hour each day of study in your chosen field you will be a national expert in that field in five years or less.
If I am intuitively led to buy and read a book, what that means is that there is something there that will help me grow spiritually.
Sometimes people run out and read a lot of books, but they don't absorb anything from them. They want to read the next popular book.
Presence is when you're no longer waiting for the next moment, believing that the next moment will be more fulfilling than this one.
Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death.
The stream of thinking has enormous momentum that can easily drag you along with it. Every thought pretends that it matters so much.
When the mind loses its density, you become translucent, like the flower. Spirit - the formless - shines through you into the world.
Creativity arises out of the state of thoughtless presence in which you are much more awake than when you are engrossed in thinking.
Surrender is surrender to this moment, not to a story through which you interpret this moment and then try to resign yourself to it.
To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation.
By a monstrous act of reductionism, the infinite depth of who you are is confused with a sound produced by the vocal cords." (p. 28)
We should purify our innate well of contentment - what a wonderful expression - and then external things will be in harmony with us.
The result of law inviolate is perfection–right–negative happiness. The result of law violate is imperfection, wrong, positive pain.
Villains!' I shrieked. 'Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart!
Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.
It is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive.
It is an author's most solemn obligation to honor truth. If the free and independent writer does not speak truth to power, who will?
Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.
Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.
We must quit bending the Word to suit our situation. It is we who must be bent to that Word, our necks that must bow under the yoke.
I think a lot of people who feel as though they desperately want to be married oftentimes simply desperately want to have a wedding.
I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.
Do not sit down in Satan's easy chair of do-little, but arise and aim at the elevated standard which it is your privilege to attain.
The life of Christ was a life of humble simplicity, yet how infinitely exalted was his mission. Christ is our example in all things.
Grace, like an angel of mercy, makes his voice heard sweet and clear, repeating the story of the cross, the matchless love of Jesus.
After we have put our intimate secrets and credit card numbers online, what can prevent us from putting our elections there as well?
With all the attention given to the personal computer, it's hard to remember that other companion machine in the room - the printer.
No one in the government is seriously penalized when Social Security numbers are stolen and misused; only the number-holders suffer.
Young men often seek tests and trials, and to me, BUD/S training - basic underwater demolition/SEAL - seemed like the ultimate test.
Fact is fact. Truth is Truth. It does not matter how you feel. We do not listen to our feelings. We believe the truth of God's word.
But I, for one, am not interested in a harmless truth or a harmless God. Give me a truth that works, and a God who makes me tremble.
Our longing for immortality is good! It was put there on purpose. We were meant - from the moment of our creation - to live forever.
If you apologize for something that isn't your fault in the first place, you, in effect, confirm their belief that it is your fault.
Men must be stripped of arrogance and women must become independent for any mutually nurturing alliance to endure between the sexes.
The beauty of social media is that it will point out your company's flaws; the key questions is how quickly you address these flaws.
A myth is an old lie that people believe in. White people believe that they're better than anyone else on earth - and that's a myth.
Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.
I really don't care much about baseball, or looking at ball games, major or minor. All my interest in baseball is in its statistics.
God has given us an imagination, and our imagination is really the principle tool from which all creativity and artistry comes from.
Today, our sexuality is an open-ended personal project; it is part of who we are, an identity, and no longer merely something we do.
I can only remember two books from college that moved me: E.M. Forster's 'Howards End' and F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby.'
The first thing we see about a short story is its mystery. And in the best short stories, we return at the last to see mystery again
There are no experts in the company of Jesus. We are all beginners, necessarily followers, because we don’t know where we are going.
Ronald Reagan had many fine qualities and he had many shortcomings. He's not the simple, folksy figure that he's often portrayed as.
Intuitive Eaters march to their inner hunger signals, and eat whatever they choose without experiencing guilt or an ethical dilemma.
Deliberation is not a particular type of speech, but a political act of collective decision-making in consideration of consequences.
The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.