In my freshman and sophomore years of college, I read dozens of books by the great thinkers of Western civilization. From Plato to Nietzsche, Homer to Shakespeare - you name it, I read it. At times it drove me crazy - picture reading hundreds of page...
Here's how it works. Your immune system protects you from all kinds of nasty bugs and helps repair tissue that has been damaged by injury or surgery. When a problem develops somewhere, your body does the equivalent of calling 911. The alarm sounds, a...
Anger is the only emotion many men allow themselves to express. Growing up, we are taught to avoid anything that is seen as the least bit feminine. We are taught that men 'do' while women 'feel.' We learn to keep all emotions under wraps, to see them...
Our new understanding of energy, and hence energy healing, is full of ideas that seem strange and contradictory. The ability to understand that two competing concepts can exist at the same time is the key to being able to derive benefits from the new...
Traumatic events, by definition, overwhelm our ability to cope. When the mind becomes flooded with emotion, a circuit breaker is thrown that allows us to survive the experience fairly intact, that is, without becoming psychotic or frying out one of t...
Family is not an important thing. It's everything.
The very important thing you should have is patience.
Sure, and fatherhood is super important too. I'm not trying to make this a women-only club by any means. Just that even men rarely view their role in child rearing as the most important thing they do, when in fact it is clearly the most important thi...
Being Adam Parrish was a complicated thing, a wonder of muscles and organs, synapses and nerves. He was a miracle of moving parts, a study in survival. The most important thing to Adam Parrish, though, had always been free will, the ability to be his...
What is important is (to know) what is not important!
The Internet is both great and terrible. As a source of information, a tool for delivering music and art, it's great. But spamming ads and piracy of music is terrible. It's stealing.
My body is my art, and it's also the tool that I use to make money.
Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
... cynicism is the only tool that can scrape away the tint off rose-coloured glasses.
The people of Missouri said they expect their elected leaders to support public schools because they know that education is the best economic development tool there is.
Every writer has to figure out what works best - and often has to select and discard different tools before they find the one that fits.
We know that often holding those who have carried out mass atrocities accountable is at times our best tool to prevent future atrocities.
We have to come together, worldwide, and 'think.' We have a tool - the internet - to let us do that. Let's use it wisely.
For everybody in their busy lives, you need to invest in sharpening your tools, and you need to invest in longevity.
I am now using media as a tool to bring attention to marginalized people.
Incessant smiling is one of the deadly tools used by someone whose intent is to make others cry.
