Wherever there's laughter, there is heaven.
When we seek our own pleasure as the ultimate good we place ourselves as the center of the universe. A fara or a man or a star has his place in the universe, but nothing created is the center.
When we choose a generality, an idea, a cause, instead of a person, when this becomes the accepted, the required thing to do, then it doesn’t matter if villages are destroyed by bombs; traffic deaths...
When we are writing or painting or composing, we are, during the time of creativity, freed from normal restrictions and opened to a wider world, where colours are brighter, sounds clearer, and people...
When I think of the incredible, incomprehensible sweep of creation above me, I have the strange reaction of feeling fully alive. Rather than feeling lost and unimportant and meaningless, seta against...
What you think is not the point. What you do is what’s going to count.
What is real?
What a child doesn’t realize until he is grown is that in responding to fantasy, fairy tale, and myth he is responding to what Erich Fromm calls the one universal language, the one and only language i...
What I must learn is to love with all of me, giving all of me, and yet remain whole in myself. Any other kind of love is too demanding of the other; it takes, rather than gives. To love so completely...
Well, the fifth dimension’s a tesseract.
We tend to think things are new because we just discovered them.
We human beings grow through our failures, not our virtues.
Was she strong enough to allow both of them to be themselves? Bahama had instilled in her an honoring of promises, but she could not keep her promise unless she was willing to allow Nik to be Nik, not...
Until bitterness ans self-pity and anger are gone... the belief was that healing was not possible until the spirit was cleansed.
To be half a century plus is wonderfully exciting, because I haven't lost any of my past, and I am free to stand on the rock of all that the past has taught me as I look to the future.
Probably the worst thing that has happened to our understanding of reality has been the acceptance of ourselves as consumers.
Pain is a partner I did not request;This is a dance I did not ask to join;whirled in a waltz when I would stop and rest,Jolted and jerked, I ache in bone and loin.Pain strives to hold me close in his...
Our sins defeat us unless we are willing to recognize them, confess them, and so become healed and whole and holy -- not qualified, mind you; just holy.
Only on love's terrible other side is found the place where lion and lamb abide.'What's that? he asked sharply.something of Mado's. Marguerite Dominique de la Valeur Renier. She drew out the syllables...
One of my young married students has suffered all her life because she was taught in her Church that she was born so sinful that the only way the wrath of God the Father could be appeased enough for h...