The day of the full moon, when the moon is neither increasing nor decreasing, the Babylonians called Sa-bat, meaning heart-rest. It was believed that on this day, the woman in the moon, Ishtar, as the...
The Divine was beyond description, beyond knowing, beyond comprehension. To say that the Divine was Creation divided by Destruction was as close as one could come to definition. But the puny of soul,...
Teachers who offer you the ultimate answers do not possess the ultimate answers, for if they did, they would know that the ultimate answers cannot be given, they can only be received.
Switters had always seemed to take a both/and approach to life, as opposed to the more conventional and restrictive either/or.
Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.
Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
Pigeon she strut on the rooftopCockroach he strut on the sink My baby strut down to JerusalemWhere blood is the favorite drink
Perhaps a person gains by accumulating obstacles. The more obstacles set up to prevent happiness from appearing, the greater the shock when it does appear, just as the rebound of a spring will be all...
People aren't trees, so it is false when they speak of roots.
Our great human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.
Nothing is implied here. Except the possibility that everything is connected.
Not naive,' Conch shell had corrected him. 'He simply has not been taught to fear the things you fear.
Never be afraid to love, not even when there's a chance you're not being loved in return.
My faith is whatever makes me feel good about being alive. If your religion doesn't make you feel good to be alive, what the hell is the point of it?
My desire was no less than before, you understand, but I no longer identified with the desire. Perhaps that is why taking them too seriously, we not only increase our susceptibility to disappointment,...
Maybe what I admired most about John Steinbeck is that he never mortgaged his 45-acre heart for a suite in an ivory tower.
Matters are very seldom all black or white. They can even be both at the same time - The Beer Fairy
Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need.
Life isn't simple; it's overwhelmingly complex. The love of simplicity is an escapist drug, like alcohol.
It was 843 B.C.. The year the patriarchs won the pennant.