Zawsze znajdą się tacy, którzy wezmą na siebie obowiązek obrony Boga, jakby Najwyższa Istota czy podstawa wszelkiego bytu była czymś słabym i wymagającym wsparcia. Ludzie ci przechodzą obok wdowy prze...
You speak with warm marbles in your mouth. You have an Indian accent
You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better.
You may not believe in life, but I don't believe in death. Move on!
With questions that are orders
What if his words had the effect of polio on me? WHat a terrible disease that must be if it could kill God in a man.
What a strange, wondrous thing, music. At last the chattering mind is silenced. No past to regret, to future to worry about, no more frantic knitting of words and thoughts. Only a beautiful, soaring n...
We’re all busy. Meditating monks in their cells are busy. That’s adult life, filled to the ceiling with things that need doing. (It seems only children and the elderly aren’t plagued by lack of time—a...
We loved our son like the sea loves an island, always surrounding him with our arms, always touching him and crashing upon his shore with our care and concern. When he was gone, the sea had only itsel...
We believe what we see.So did Columbus. What do you do when you're in the dark?
Und dann war da die Frau, der ein Löwe den Sari auszog. Sie drehte sich wie ein Jojo, denn dem tödlichen Ende zog sie die tödliche Schande dann doch vor. [...] Verletzt wurde sie nicht; zahlreiche Män...
Tomás shudders. He lifts his head. A breeze is blowing. In whatever direction he looks, there is majestic normalcy: wild growth here, tilled fields over there, the road, the sky, the sun. Everything i...
To chose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
They would emerge a short distance away, sometimes three or four of them, a short lived archipelago of volcanic islands.
These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside. They should direct their anger at themselves. For evil in the open is but evil within that has been...
There's no peace like the peace of an inner courtyard on a sunny day.
Then Richard Parker, companion of my torment, awful, fierce thing that kept me alive, moved forward and disappeared forever from my life.
The world isn’t just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn’t that make life a story?
The voice said, I will not die. I refuse it. I will make it through this nightmare. I will beat the odds, as great as they are. I have survived so far, miraculously. Now I will turn miracle into routi...
The three-toed sloth lives a peaceful, vegetarian life in perfect harmony with its environment. A good-natured smile is forever on its lips, reported Tirler (1966). I have seen that smile with my own...