I believe there is a reason such as autism, severe manic-depression, and schizophrenia remain in our gene pool even though there is much suffering as a result.
Unfortunately, most people never observe the natural cycle of birth and death. They do not realize that for one living thing to survive, another living thing must die.
Kara do you love Brad?' All my heart.' Then how can you let him leave next year?' I guess love isn’t enough sometimes.
You have no idea how dearly I wish you were of my blood. My daughter, granddaughter. Will you allow me to take pride in what you are?" -- Sandre to Catriana
She had been a solitary child, and then solitary as a woman, drawn into an orbit of her own that took her away from others, even those who would be her friends.
Relationship gurus always said that an attraction based on friendship and mutual respect was far more likely to stay the course - and the bastards were right.
You will go on and meet someone else and I'll just be a chapter in your tale, but for me, you were, you are and you always will be, the whole story.
I do not think that a man's rise to power is necessarily the climax of his life or that his loss of office should be equated with his fall.
We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.
The sense of mystery must always be, for mystery means being guided by obedience to Someone Who knows more than I do.
The focusing of attention on the breath is perhaps the most universal of the many hundreds of meditation subjects used worldwide.
In Buddhist practice, the outward and inward aspects of taking the one seat meet on our meditation cushion.
We need to learn how to honor and use a practice for as long as it serves us.
She was tall and dark-skinned and looked like a Nigerian sculpture. She moved like a lioness, her every step bristling with suppressed violence.
The pure perfect truth of life is that we are here to create heaven on earth, to bring the perfection of what is above down to us, and in doing so to become transformed as human being into something great and beautiful.
And whose rules will choose to you follow? God's? Or man's? You say you want to break the outmoded patterns and crate a new model? Then do it. That is part of your destiny, boy.
I certainly don't understand all these strange new feelings inside me--am I here because I love him, or because I owe him?
Emotion is not simply an overplus of feeling; it is life lived at white-heat, a state of wonder. To lose wonder is to lose the true element of religion.
To deny the necessity or value of metaphysics is to assert a metaphysical principle, just as to say a religion must be without dogmas is to assert a dogma.
In a sense who you are has always been a story that you told to yourself. Now your self is a story that you tell to others.
Desire is the key to motivation. It is the key to develop a healthy personality and a positive attitude towards oneself and others.
