The season was waning fast Our nights were growing cold at last I took her to bed with silk and song, 'Lay still, my love, I won’t be long; I must prepare my body for passion.' 'O, your body you give, but all else you ration.' 'It is because of the...
I know what it feels like to miss everything about him--the way he smells, the way his mouth curls up when he laughs, his voice.
Allow the light to fall across you. Shadow or sunlight. Allow it to define your shape. In its way. Another day it may be different. It surely will be. Are we ever the same? Is the light? And the way a form presses into the grass?
Not the last time in Western history, the revolutionaries armed themselves with a new religion to steel themselves for greater outrageous.
The dead outnumber the living fourteen to one, and we ignore the accumulated experience of such a huge majority of mankind at our peril
I wrote this book because I had formed a strong impression that the people currently living were paying insufficient attention to the dead.
Here's where redesign begins in earnest, where we stop trying to be less bad and we start figuring out how to be good.
…the way people understood things had a lot to do with the way people were, how they had been shaped, what the wanted; tricks of rhetoric would not shift them.
Pick a mentor. The role of a mentor is to monitor your movements. When you desire to move the positive way and you connect with someone who thinks the negative way, you can’t get there!
If (or rather when) you move to death, you’ll learn its language through the educational process known as total immersion. (7)
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
...for if we try to go on protecting them we prevent them from growing up to be ordinary, confident adults, capable of looking after themselves.
Join us next time for Days of the Undead when Rachel learns her long lost brother is really a crown prince from outer space.
..The stuff you learn beforehand will never be one-tenth as useful as the stuff you learn the hard way, on the job.
need is not demand. Effective economic demand requires not merely need but corresponding purchasing power.
A law of nature is not a formula drawn up by a legislator, but a mere summary of the observed facts — a 'bundle of facts.' Things do not act in a particular way because there is a law, but we state the 'law' because they act in that way.
Depression means self-loathing, self-disgust, and the kind of emotional numbness that feels like psychic death.
Most people don't want to die, but they don't want to live either. I am speaking about men now as much as women. They look for a third way, but there is no third way.
Many questing young people and stressed older people nowadays seek relaxation through meditation. They look for it in Hindu, Buddhist and other Eastern religions. They are often surprised to learn that there is such a way within the Christian traditi...
It must be obvious that the Reality we all encounter only works one way, and it functions that way regardless of what the experiencer believes.
The way a man drinks in company tells you nothing about him, but the way he drinks when alone reveals, without his realizing it, the very depths of his soul.
