If I have forfeited the ability to wonder so as not to offend the tenets of the culture, and if I have sacrificed warm dreams on the cold altar of conformity, it is likely because I have somewhere traded the marvel of the infinite for the malaise of ...
This is what you do when you journal. You are recording God’s grand, epoch-spanning redemptive story as it unfolds in your limited, temporal sphere of existence here on earth. Your journal has the potential to record the continuation of the Holy Sp...
As soon as you open your mind to doing things differently, the doors of opportunity practically fly off their hinges.
The essence of humility in Step 3 is acknowledging and accepting our dependence on God. The essence of faith is trusting God. – p. 167
We arrive in the rooms tangled up in a web of complexity and confusion. Our lives are unmanageable because our minds are unmanageable.” – p. 134
The growth of the exploiters' revolution on this continent has been accompanied by the growth of the idea that work is beneath human dignity, particularly any form of hand work. We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequ...
If we observe ourselves truthfully and non-judgmentally, seeing the mechanisms of our personality in action, we can wake up, and our lives can be a miraculous unfolding of beauty and joy.
It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite numb...
The principle of fair reduction is based on the concept of historic responsibility. Developed countries finished industrialising first. Thus, over the last 60 years, the developed countries, which represent 17 percent of the world's population, have ...
Where there is age there is evolution, where there is life there is growth.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
Growth and comfort do not coexist.
Growth is a painful process.
By 2030, just a small percentage of the global population will live in poverty.
As the population of Georgia increased dramatically, so did development.
Part of the population of Laos lives in urban centers, Vientiane being the largest.
I did not claim that speciation occurs only in founder populations.
The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population is endless for food and lore and everything about it.
Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.
A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
China is a great country with a great culture, populated by fascinating, industrious and talented people.
