I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.
We can easily become loyal to our suffering … but it's not the end of the path.
Love creates a communion with life. Love expands us, connects us, sweetens us, ennobles us. Love springs up in tender concern, it blossoms into caring action. It makes beauty out of all we touch. In any moment we can step beyond our small self and embrace each other as beloved parts of a whole.
We can bring a heart of understanding and compassion to a world that needs it so much.
Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
The purpose of spiritual life is not to create some special state of mind. A state of mind is always temporary. The purpose is to work directly with the most primary elements of our body and our mind, to see the ways we get trapped by our fears, desires, and anger, to learn directly our capacity for freedom.
Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.
God is the Lord of human history and of the personal history of every member of His redeemed family.
I would love to star in a remake of Thelma and Louise. Yep, that's the one I'd be interested in redoing.
It was the vehicle that propelled me to international stardom. ("Harder They Come") I was known as a singersongwriter before that, but people did not know me as an actor. It showed the world where the music I contributed to create was coming from. It opened the gates for Jamaican music, internationally.