In Charleston, more than elsewhere, you get the feeling that the twentieth century is a vast, unconscionable mistake.
I looked long and hard for the paper roses! I found the reddest red ribbon, and a little golden card! We were all there together, many of us, in the same place; but I was the only one who found the pa...
Joy cannot be pursued. It comes from within. It is a state of being. It does not depend on circumstances, but triumphs over circumstances. It produces a gentleness of spirit and a magnetic personality...
One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.
Your personal truth is your gift to the world.
Lord, help us to choose humility over pride. Help us to choose love over our reputation. Help us to choose patience over making a point, and your Word over our feelings. Lord, help us to choose persev...
You make name for yourself when you overcome pain, weakness, laziness and ignorance
I once took a poo in the woods while hunched over like an animal. It was AWESOME.
Some people are as angry as they seem to be only because it's the safest place to hide from more pain.
Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.
At the beginning, I thought the best Islamic work was in Spain - the mosque in Cordoba, the Alhambra in Granada. But as I learned more, my ideas shifted. I traveled to Egypt, and to the Middle East ma...