How we pay attention to the present moment. . . determin es the character of our experience and. . . the quality of our lives.
We do not control the trade of our resources, which are an important factor of prosperity for the dominant nations.
It is not right to associate the fight against international terrorist networks with an imaginary crusade against Islam.
Globalization, far from putting an end to power diplomacy between States, has, on the contrary, intensified it.
In short, we have, among African countries, a duty of solidarity.
The most powerful State in the world, which up to now was relatively protected from terrorist violence, is no longer an inviolable sanctuary.
The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.
If we pursue this way, if we are decent, industrious, and honest, if we so loyally and truly fulfill our duty, then it is my conviction that in the future as in the past the Lord God will always help us. In the long run He never leaves decent folk in the lurch. Often He may test them, He may send trials upon them, but in the long run He always lets His sun shine upon them once more and at the end He gives them His blessing.
On the one hand, then, in the reproductive functions proper-menstruation, defloration, pregnancy and parturition-woman is biologically doomed to suffer. Nature seems to have no hesitation in administering to her strong doses of pain, and she can do nothing but submit passively to the regimen prescribed. On the other hand, as regards sexual attraction, which is necessary for the act of impregnation, and as regards the erotic pleasures experienced during the act itself, the woman may be on an equal footing with the man.
The Great Work of Magic is the collapsing of the future into the immediate present; the magician seizes reality and lives now, free from the bonds of his past, and knowing that the future is the Manifestation of his Will.
the words people do not speak are louder than the ones they do.