Grant us a vision, Lord, To see what we can achieve To reach out beyond ourselves To share our lives with others To stretch our capabilities To increase our sense of purpose To be awar...
When confronted with suffering that won't go away or with even a minor problem, we instinctively focus on what is missing,...not on the Master's hand. Often when you think everything has gone wrong, it's just that you're in the middle of a story. If ...
The proposition that primitive dream imagery might reproduce, albeit imperfectly, the experience of one's ancestors, including their terrors, was rather too existentially charged for post-modern sensitivities, for which the meaningless hypothesis of ...
Politics is clearly a not so happening topic in our young blood. I could clearly see many students yawning. Some might have been discussing the new Shakira video amongst themselves, the one shown on MTV these days. Bloody donkeys, if it was a porno m...
When I have been listened to and when I have been heard, I am able to re-perceive my world in a new way and to go on. It is astonishing how elements that seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens, how confusions that seem irremediable turn i...
Withnail: Listen, I know what you're thinking but I had no alternative. The old bugger's come a long way and I didn't want to put the wind up him. Marwood: Your sensitivity overwhelms me. If you think you're going to have a weekend's indulgence up he...
Beholding beauty: The key is to acquire the ability to alter our negativity. To do this we use our capacity to project, but in a healthy way. Instead of expelling negative feelings and thoughts onto the world, we project good ones. Envisioning beauty...
Human history has no unique pattern of intelligibility.
... scar tissue was the strongest tissue in the human body.
It takes two to have a fight.
Kant thought things, not because they were true, but because he was Kant.
Is it painful?" the groundskeeper asked. "I am asking for science.
That the other suffers has to be learned; and it can never be learned fully.
Diversity, not uniformity, is what works.
Empathy is what separates human beings from teenage boys.
Protect art. It is the antidote to the innate barbarism of the human race.
It is through love that the door to Heaven is opened on earth.
Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.
When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
Words alone cannot fully convey the realities of the soul or the greatness of the human spirit.
Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.
