The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea.
However one might pray - in any verbal way or completely without words - is unimportant to God. What matters is the heart's intent.
I would fight God Almighty Himself if He didn't play square with me.
I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.
It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state.
Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you.
Churches need to figure out how they will address the spiritual lives of their staffs and leadership teams.
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
I changed the course of my life, from the rigidity of mathematics and the corporate rhythm to a more bohemian world.
Therefore the vast majority of the people who affirm leftist beliefs think of their views as the only way to properly think about life.
Life just doesn't hand you things. You have to get out there and make things happen. that's the exciting part.
From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide.
Larry, I spent probably most of my professional life helping to build Enron Corporation. I don't think there was anyone that was as shocked by the - by the collapse of the company as I was.
So the ethic I was taught in school resulted in the path I chose in my life following school.
I feel like everything I ever did in my life led me to the Franklin Mint.
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.
Hysteria, epilepsy, tuberculosis, and cancer were all found to result from the erratic propensities of a past life.
To describe the overwhelming life of a tropical forest just in terms of inert biochemistry and DNA didn't seem to give a very full picture of the world.
What you learn about pain in formal meditation can help you relate to it in your daily life.
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
