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Proof ... was a conclusion built on a pyramid of facts, a broad base of accepted information on which more specific assertions were made.
People love miracle stories and dramatic moments of transcendence or transformation, and may then pursue their own dramatic "awakenings."
Owning a gun in America is one way for conservative white males to demonstrate their anger at crime, liberalism, feminism, and modernity.
Mystery. The strangeness of place so necessary to some creative spirits. A perfect mixture of the classical utopia and the pagan mystery.
For people who have been raised on text-based interactions, just speaking on the telephone can be high bandwidth to the point of anxiety.
A new experience can be extremely pleasurable, or extremely irritating, or somewhere in between, and you never know until you try it out.
No act loses us; no violence we're subjected to destroys us; no debasement chases out the divine, and no one can take the divine from us.
My fiction is only just over the horizon. I present a world that's different but it's familiar enough that it freaks people out a little.
The path to success is through a continuum of mundane, unsexy, unexciting, and sometimes difficult daily disciplines compounded over time
After the war, Prohibition was passed, and with liquor no longer legally available the nation plunged headlong into the Great Depression.
I was a middle-of-the-road Democrat more than anything else. I know I voted for Carter. Watergate taught me how bad the Republicans were.
You can't work three hours a week and make $100,000. Get rich quick doesn't work. Crock pot mentality always defeats microwave mentality!
Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.
I had the fear of heights when I was young, along with many other fears and phobias, including the fear of dogs, bees, horses, and blood.
Masculine anger is always because you are feeling constrained, trapped by life. Feminine anger is always because you are feeling unloved.
Stop hoping for a completion of anything in life... Do what you love to do, what you are waiting to do, what you've been born to do, now.
a society driven mainly by selfish individualism has all the potential for sustainability of a collection of angry scorpions in a bottle.
The Bible tells us that whenever we come before God, whatever our purpose or prayer request, we are always to come with a thankful heart.
There are other kinds of joy found in other places in the world, but there is no place where you can find Christian joy except in Christ.
He is able to help His children work through anything, and not a single thing is going to happen in the future that can change that fact.
During the primaries, if another candidate criticized him, [Donald] Trump would respond with even stronger criticism toward his attacker.
A photograph it a souvenir of a memory. It is not a moment. It is the looking at the photograph that becomes the moment. Your own moment.
why won't they leave me alone? don't they realize I have a tinder heart and a paper body and that any spark will turn me straight to ash?
...Had proven himself a leader of remarkable ability, a man not only of enterprising ideas, but with the staying power to carry them out.
The motivations for using drugs, often it's pretty obvious and common: you know, peer pressure. You know, kids are struggling growing up.
If the bus driver is black, I thank him... when I get off at my spot, whereas I would never think of doing this if the driver were white.
I felt like I was definitely seeing something - the falsely gorgeous images of war, painted, almost invariably, in 'Times' combat photos.
You have the capacity to change the plotline of your life, even if you've been acting from the same script since before you can remember.
There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can.
War is the greatest evil Satan has invented to corrupt our hearts and souls. We should honor our soldiers, but we should never honor war.
Being present means being completely aware of all that is. It means you’re not in denial, you’re not pretending, and you’re not avoiding.
Resentments lodge inside you, causing you to lose touch with your inherent worth, your joy, and - more important - your God-loving heart.
I think most people, no matter what their situation, manage to find joy and comfort in their daily lives. I also think things fall apart.
If my mind cannot be tied down, if my dreams cannot be diminished, then no amount of restraints can really guarantee my quiet submission.
When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself.
If you contemplate the Golden Rule, it turns out to be an injunction to live by grace rather than by what you think other people deserve.
You can get the highest quality sleep by keeping your sleep cycles in tune with the rhythms of the universe (known as circadian rhythms).
Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos, music embedded deep within us to which we dance, even when we can't name the tune.
If you want to reach a state of Bliss - make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved and the need to judge.
Observe the silence between your thoughts, actions, reactions, and you will feel the presence of spirit in the stillness of those spaces.
When you stay in the moment, you have all the time in the world, and whatever needs to be done will be completed in the exact right time.
Emotion brings in the dimension of bonding or tuning in: An experience that touches your heart makes the meaning that much more personal.
Apakah penampilanku satu-satunya hal yang membuatku berharga? Jika begitu, jangan tatap aku. Wajahku bisa menyembunyikan hati yang palsu.
My first exposure to the vocabulary of inter-beingness was through the writings of Thich Nhat Hahn, to whom I remain enormously grateful.
When it comes to foods as we age, it is a good rule of thumb to focus on high-quality, whole, fresh foods as the basis of all your meals.
Need a body-confidence boost? Pick up a pair of dumbbells and let your gaze linger on the outline of your biceps as you lift the weights.
Deep within each of us is a longing for home. We yearn for a place of comfort where we can be ourselves, where we can realize our dreams.
Teamplayer: Once who unites others toward a shared destiny through sharing information and ideas, empowering others and developing trust.
It's important to remember that the Jacobite Risings of the 18th century constituted a religious civil war, not a nationalistic movement.
I'm sure civilizations will still evolve through play, or rather as play, since that seems to be a fundamental mechanism of our humanity.