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Our whole family thrives under pressure. It's like our family motto or something. Apart from my brother Peter, of course. He had a nervous break down. But the rest of us.

The Undomestic Goddess

Sometimes belief is the reason for liberation; other times, our own conviction prevents our escape. It depends on whether or not you believe God is listening, if you can cling to hope in the gravest of times. Hope is a precious life force within us.

Unnatural Truth

It goes with a courageous intent to greet the universe as it really is, not to foist our emotional predispositions on it but to courageously accept what our explorations tell us.

The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

The best defense is great offense. . .We fight through our mistakes and failures by maximizing our forward motion.

Why Great Men Fall: 15 Winning Strategies to Rise Above It All

It’s hard being pissed with a nice car and a good job. Fed up on filet medallions and swimming in chilled martinis. We know what we think and our life here is our reward for thinking it.

The World's Game

We enslave in the manner we talk to ourselves. But the truth is, God already set us free. He secured our release. To constantly hurt ourselves, resting in our inadequacy, is to call Him a LIAR.

Wall Around Your Heart

It is by a mathematical point only that we are wise, as the sailor or fugitive slave keeps the polestar in his eye; but that is sufficient guidance for all our life. We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the ...

Walden

My dear Prue, we are the inheritors of a wonderful world, a beautiful world, full of life and mystery, goodness and pain. But likewise are we children of an indifferent universe. We break our own hearts imposing our moral order on what is, by nature,...

Wildwood

Fiction must convince our bodies for it to have any chance of convincing our minds.

Writing Past Dark: Envy, Fear, Distraction and Other Dilemmas in the Writer's Life

Think of the great poetry, the music and dance and ritual that spring forth from our aspiring to a life beyond death. Maybe these things are justification enough for our hopes and dreams, although I wouldn't say that to a dying man.

White Noise

We bury things so deep we no longer remember there was anything to bury. Our bodies remember. Our neurotic states remember. But we don't.

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

The combination of power, optimism and abstract thinking makes powerful people more certain. The more cut-off they are from others, the more confident they are that they are right.

Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril

Think neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices are fathered by our heroism. Virtues are forced upon us by our impudent crimes. These tears are shaken from the wrath-bearing tree.

The Waste Land and Other Poems

It is in our nature to enjoy atrocity so long as it continues to shock and remains comfortably removed from our own lives.

What Alice Knew: A Most Curious Tale of Henry James & Jack the Ripper

There are many futures, not just one. Life is not like walking down the road and meeting the predetermined events.

Why We Are Born: Remembering Our Purpose through the Akashic Records

Each soul has its own life plan. This means that we cannot live someone else’s life.

Why We Are Born: Remembering Our Purpose through the Akashic Records

We are One in spirit, omnipresent and all-knowing, and at the same time, we are individual souls, each with unique attributes.

Why We Are Born: Remembering Our Purpose through the Akashic Records

There are times in our lives when we have to realize our past is precisely what it is, and we cannot change it. But we can change the story we tell ourselves about it, and by doing that, we can change the future.

The Weird Sisters

When it comes to words, rather than using our own voice, authentic and unpracticed, we steal someone else's to shield our fear.

When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

We don't have to be harsh with ourselves when we think, sitting here, that our meditation or our oryoki or the way we are in the world is in the category of worst horse.

The Wisdom of No Escape: How to Love Yourself and Your World

In my hands I hold the tools necessary for our government to fix our economic situation. My hands are empty, because a hands-off approach is the best approach.

Whenever You're Gone, I'm Here For You