None of the Christian religions do [interest me]. They're all outer-directed.
You can change the world again, instead of protecting yourself from it.
Success works as a cycle - growth and contraction, balancing and unbalancing - all while you're encountering hurdles that get higher and higher over time.
You will never be entirely comfortable. This is the truth behind the champion - he is always fighting something. To do otherwise is to settle.
The truth is that judgment and fear will never stop, but they don't actually do anything.
Do the uncomfortable and it will widen your circle of comfort.
You can't make yourself feel positive, but you can choose how to act, and if you choose right, it builds your confidence
If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body.
I married my Japanese wife Mayumi who I'm so happy with, she's been so supportive. I live part time in Japan at her house, so I've been always very influenced by Japan. Since I guess the 70's or so. I've come to appreciate so much of their culture.
Ours is an age between worldviews, creative yet disoriented, a transitional era when the old cultural vision no longer holds and the new has not yet constellated. Yet we are not without signs of what the new might look like
Lifting one's gaze to the living God, the guarantor of our freedom and of truth, is a premise for arriving at a new humanity. Nowadays, in a special way, the world needs people capable of proclaiming and bearing witness to God who is love, and consequently the one light which in the end, illumines the darkness of the world and gives us strength to live and work