A small portion of Mahatma Gandhi’s ashes are enshrined at the Self Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine Temple in Pacific Palisades. They are the only portion of Gandhi’s remains that are kept anywhere...
Your life better. I know my faith makes my life better, and whether what I believe in exists or not, because I have faith in it, I get the benefits of that faith. I’m not going to ever have faith in G...
[...]that's how it works most of the time; we say the things that matter to people when it's already too late.
[...]life was simple, we were born and we were going to die. There was nothing for us before we were born, and there would be nothing for us after we died. While we were here we had choices. While we...
You gotta work for everything in this world. Scratch and claw and fight for every little thing. And it never gets easier. Never. And it doesn't end until you die. And then it doesn't matter.
Words can't say this. The one word 'love' means too little for what it is. It means everything and that is still not enough. It doesn't communicate even the fraction of the feeling involved. Love. The...
Were it up to me, I would be with Lilly. Were it up to me I would be asleep in her arms. She's dead, in a cooler in some fucking morgue, and i'll never sleep in her arms again. The thought of it makes...
Trauma is survivable, but often not much more. It kills you while allowing you to still live.
There is one thing. One thing that haunts me from page one to page twenty-two. I have never spoken of it. I have never told another person
The past doesn't matter. People cling to it because it allows them to ignore the present.
In my mind my obituary is done.It is done and it is right. It tells the truth and as awful as it can be, the truth is what matters. It is what I should be remembered by, if I'm remembered at all. Reme...
In 2001, the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-arc), an avant-garde architecture school that has produced some of the prominent architects in the country, relocated to the Artists Dis...
I would like to be soft and warm. I would be terrified to be that way. I could be hurt if I were soft and warm. I could be hurt by something other than myself. It is harder to be soft than it is to be...
I think God is something that people use to avoid reality. I think faith allows people to reject what is right in front of our eyes, which is that thing, this life, this existence, this consciousness,...
For the most profound experiences in our lives and in the world words are worth nothing. Can you describe love Or death Can you describe what it really feels like the first time you see your child Or...
Dio non ci dà il dono della vita eterna. Il dono è la vita che abbiamo, e quando è finita è bell’e finita. [...] E tutto quello che abbiamo al mondo sono gli altri. E tutto quello che abbiamo con loro...
As we stand to leave, I look across the dining hall and through the glass at Lilly. She is smiling at me and the smile hurts.
Addiction is a decision. An individual wants something, whatever that something is, and makes a desicion to get it. Once they have it, they make a decision to take it. If they take it too often, that...
We got this gift of life and we got it one time and we gonna get hurt in it and be hurt going through it and the only thing that'll make that hurt better or hurt less is love.
When things are tough, and when I don’t think I can last another minute, if I just hold on, hold on tight and with everything I got, the shit gets better.