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Don't let your background or commitment to your own tradition make you fearful of joining in the adventure the Holy Spirit prepares for you.

Washed and Waiting: Reflections on Christian Faithfulness and Homosexuality

The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence -- these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I belong to it.

The World As I See It

Were we incapable of empathy – of putting ourselves in the position of others and seeing that their suffering is like our own – then ethical reasoning would lead nowhere. If emotion without reason is blind, then reason without emotion is impotent...

Writings on an Ethical Life

I envy the man to snatch him up. This will be the only time in life I’m siding with Freud and experiencing ‘penis envy’. There will never be a repeat. Can’t be associated with too much crazy, I’m juggling enough on my own.

Will: Marry a Liar

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

Much of your strength as a woman can come from the resolve to replenish and fill your own well and essence first, before taking care of others.

A Woman's Truth: A Life Truly Worth Living

The library was quiet. It was busy but it was quiet and I thought it must be like this in a monastery where you had company and sympathy but your thoughts were your own.

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Do you know that I love now to recall and visit at certain dates the places where I was once happy in my own way? I love to build up my present in harmony with the irrevocable past...

White Nights

If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

I have learned one lesson in all this and I will share it knowing it will do no one any good. The lesson is this: "There are none more complicit in one's undoing than one's own heart".

The Woman in the Portrait

The eye of judgment sees at a distance what it refuses to see in it's own reflection.

From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.

The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy

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

It's kind of strange...All these so-called myths and fables. Everyone seems to have the same ones. They cross cultures and continents. Everyone has their own versions of unicorns, witches, even the Fates. Now we know why. Because they're real.

Warped

The coward’s fear of death stems in large part from his incapacity to love anything but his own body. The inability to participate in others’ lives stands in the way of his developing any inner resources sufficient to overcome the terror of death...

War

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 need solitude, because when we're alone, we're free from obligations, we don't need to put on a show, and we can hear our own thoughts.

West of Kabul, East of New York: An Afghan American Story

We hold the future still timidly, but perceive it for the first time as a function of our own action.

The World, the Flesh & the Devil;: An Enquiry into the Future of the Three Enemies of the Rational Soul

The moment workers can afford too little they rebel. The last time this was a real danger was 1950. Communists took advantage of supply problems and stirred up gullible people against their very own country.

Wonderful, Wonderful Times

Two things which are the peculiar domain of the heart, not the mind—politics and religion. He doesn’t want to know the other side. He wants arguments and statistics for his own side, and nothing more.

The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

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