I have a traditional view of the afterlife... heaven, hell and judgments. But the accounts of those places are scant ,and I believe it's on purpose. We aren't supposed to try to figure out the architecture of the afterlife, since the big game is here...
When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.
This has serveral consequences, starting with screwing over most cryptography algorithms--translation: all your bank account are belong to us--
The goal is to build a profitable business, not maintain an expensive hobby that will leave you in the poorhouse.
But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what’s going on in his heart and mind.
Live to fight another day was an expression that did not take nto account the loved one who would die because you didn't continue fighting today.
Should we try to account for all the gifts of life there would be no time for distress and uneasiness.
And, indeed, I will ask on my own account here, an idle question: which is better - cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better?
The paths to liberation are numerous, but the bank along the way is always the same, the Bank of Karma, where the liberation account of each of us is credited or debited depending on our actions.
We go to the past to lay the blame - since the past can't argue. We go to our past selves to account for our present miseries.
I smelled silt on the wind, turkey, laundry, leaves . . . my God what a world. There is no accounting for one second of it (267).
God formed an alliance based on the world as it is, full of flaws, whereas prayer calls God to account for the world as it should be.
There’s not a chance we’ll reach our full potential until we stop blaming each other and start practicing personal accountability.
We cannot have a just society that applies the principle of accountability to the powerless in the principle of forgiveness to the powerful.
If you ask Muslim women why they cover up, ninety-nine percent of them will say it's to avoid arousing men. Fuck that, where's your self-accountability?
Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of richer souls that are capable of bestowing and have their value in the feeling of the plenitude of life.
The American people are screaming out saying it's unfair that the wealthiest, the largest corporations who can afford the best attorneys, the best accountants, take advantage of these special tax treatments that the lobbyists have, along with lawmake...
It takes an extraordinary toll on me to re-live my experiences, the horrors of my past and the pain I had to endure. And yet, I believe remembering is the only way to promote healing, to promote awareness and accountability.
Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all available techniques for teaching literacy, so the varying needs and capacities of individual kids can be taken into account.
I am formally accountable to the steering board of the PIC, and I meet with nine ambassadors from the PIC every week. I have to have the capitals' broad agreement with what I do.
I don't doubt that the explanation for consciousness will arise from the mercilessly scientific account of psychology and neuroscience, but, still, isn't it neat that the universe is such that it gave rise to conscious beings like you and me?
