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We must find out for ourselves that inside us is a god or goddess in embryo that wants to be born so that we can express our divinity.
Your biological age is a critical component in the entire aging process, and again, can be very different from your chronological age.
Children offer the finest expressions of openness and flexibility. They play and laugh freely, and find wonder in the smallest things.
A job is how you make money. A career is how you make your mark. A calling is how you acknowledge a higher vision, whatever it may be.
The reason why life is a sleep & dream for most people is because their awareness is caught up with past or future & not with what is.
In God's eyes, walking on water is no more miraculous than the ability of hemoglobin to bond with oxygen inside a red blood corpuscle.
People have to change their concepts of aging and I am not asking them to do so based on some fanciful notion, but on scientific fact.
The science only perpetuates the vicious cycle of cronyism, power-mongering, influence peddling, corruption, bureaucracy, all of that.
Whatever she saw beyond the camera lens, beyond the photographer, beyond anything in the known world probably - wasn't fit to be seen.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that any way of living that's based on the use of non-renewable resources won't last.
Catholics don't believe in divorce. We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all. --Brianna Fraser to Roger MacKenzie
Eight was about the age I was when I realized that people actually produced books, they didn't just spring out of the library shelves.
Shaped a little like a loaf of French country bread, our brain is a crowded chemistry lab, bustling with nonstop neural conversations.
But even in your world it’s a byword. Men will fight bravely and be heroes, but for last-ditch defense against any odds… get a Mother.
What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years.
Never assume, no matter how strong the temptation, that other people are low-life lying manipulators without a shred of human decency.
The true nature of the gods is that of magical images shaped out of the astral plane by mankind's thought, and influenced by the mind.
You know, I mean this sincerely, you know, I'm so grateful that I get to get up in the morning and do this, you know, and write books.
When a device as simple as a door has to come with an instruction manual—even a one-word manual—then it is a failure, poorly designed.
I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting.
We are what we have been told about ourselves. We are the sum of the messages we have received. The true messages. The false messages.
Makes you grow up quick. Hard work makes you strong. I work hard every day; that's where I get my strength. That and knowing who I am.
there's no such thing as luck. Nothing ever just happens to anybody. ... nothing can really happen to a person till he lets it happen.
Why Ho Chi Minh City? It is crowded, noisy, scruffy, crazy, but always interesting and things are happening all at a break neck speed.
I am led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is only narrative.
History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
Whenever citizens are seen routinely as enemies of their own government, writers are rountinely seen to be the most dangerous enemies.
It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.
"Getting away from it all," many people want that, and of course ultimately the only way to get away from it all is to go within, now.
...the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions.
The energy that flows into what you do, although it may be high energy, is very peaceful energy. It is not out of alignment with life.
The more you make your thoughts and beliefs into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimension within yourself.
Because Adam, God's deputy on earth, transfered his legal dominion to Satan, God became obligated to recognize Satan's legal standing.
The Christian life is not about finding safety and comfort; it’s about finding yourself in a dangerous place of vulnerable compassion.
It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
In the marginalia ... we talk only to ourselves; we therefore talk freshly - boldly - originally - with abandonment - without conceit.
The preoccupation of American historical and literary scholars with the New England Puritans must seem to outsiders like an obsession.
Colorblind racism is the new racial music most people dance to, the 'new racism' is subtle, institutionalized and seemingly nonracial.
It seems clear at last that our love for the natural world-Nature-is the only means by which we can requite God's obvious love for it.
The best argument for Christianity is the Gregorian chant. Listening to that music, one can believe anything -- while the music lasts.
One of the bedrock principles of physics is the conservation of energy. In this universe, energy can be neither created nor destroyed.
We can never know God as it is our privilege to know Him by brief repetitions that are requests for personal favors, and nothing more.
The spring of the New Age is here, bursting forth in perfect harmony, beauty and abundance; and nothing can stop it from coming about.
Writing in another language gives me an additional freedom, an additional way of thinking. It's a challenge, but I like the challenge.
I knew it the first of the summer, I knew it the same at the end, That you and your love were plighted, But couldn't you be my friend?
The Jews did not go into darkness all at once. It was a gradual work, until they could not discern the gift of God in sending his Son.
[Happiness is] a ghost, it’s a shadow. You can’t really chase it. It’s a by-product, a very pleasant side effect to a life lived well.
Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.
Tigerkit! Have you been eavesdropping again?" Tawnypelt glared at her dark tabby kit, but it was easy to see the fondness in her eyes.
Finally, Everybody Hates Chris is on, isn't that right Alice?? Plus, I dont know why they say to put author name for a stinkin' quote.