Virtue is something you have to get good at, like playing the trombone or tolerating bores at parties. Being a virtuous human being takes practice; and those who are brilliant at being human (what Christians call the saints) are the virtuosi of the m...
When we are securely rooted in personal intimacy with the source of life, it will be possible to remain flexible without being relativistic, convinced without being rigid, willing to confront without being offensive, gentle and forgiving without bein...
Eventually you will find yourself preferring to say, 'Prayer happened, and I was there" more than "I prayed today". All you know is that you are being led, being guided, being loved, being used, being prayed through -- and you are no longer in the dr...
This is me being sad. Maybe you think I'm being happy in this picture. Really I'm being sad but pretending I'm being happy. I'm doing that because I think people won't like me if I look sad.
I could settle for being a man, or I could struggle to become a human being.
Being strong can be also feminine. I don't think feminine equals being weak. Being strong is very sexy.
Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
I'm passionate about being true to myself, sending good energy to the people around me, traveling, staying inspired, being a good friend, being a good daughter, being a good sister.
The truth, of course, is that the only necessary and sufficient condition for human beings to murder one another is the simple fact of being human.
Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
Against the beastly human being even the gods are powerless.
Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience but spiritual beings having a human experience.
Being interesting isn't important. But being happy is. As well as being a person you're proud of
I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.
We are Not a Human Beings having a spiritual experience : we are spiritual beings having a Human Experience !
The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.
I could find faults with all my albums because that's just a part of being an artist - it's hard being a human being, isn't it?
Being there when things are easy is one of the benefits of being a good friend. Being there when things get difficult is one of the tests.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
Being uprooted from your own culture, provided you take with you the way of thinking and being that characterises the more integrated social culture from which you come, is not as disruptive to happiness and well-being as becoming part of a relativel...
