People respond to the stories. They tell them themselves. The stories spread, and as people tell them, the stories change the tellers.
Success is hard, rewards are scant and the glory not always there.
Most frequently asked question at my AI talks: Will robots be conscious? We slaughter 60 billion animals/year, but are concerned for robots?
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.
Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires...
We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.
Beware ! Discipline goes to two different directions : success and self glory. Self glory is the biggest failure of life.
If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.
Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.
But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.