Zen is very easy! It's like touching your nose when you wash your face in the morning!
The federal government should be less important in our lives, not more.
Our founding fathers detested the idea of a democracy and labored long to prevent America becoming one. Once again - the word 'democracy' does not appear in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, or the constitution of any of the fifty states. Not once. Furthermore, take a look at State of the Union speeches. You won't find the 'D' word uttered once until the Wilson years.
The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.
If it is wrong for you to take money from someone else who earned it, to take their money by force for your own needs, then it is certainly just as wrong for you to demand that the government step forward and do this dirty work for you.
Isn't it somewhat remarkable that we can go back a a few hundred years and find no shortage of quotations from our founding fathers warning us against the dangers of democracy, yet today teachers and politicians use the word as if it were an offering of gold.
There are people in Congress who aren't very bright. In fact, some of them are just plain brain-dead.
The American people do not want ambassadorships or any other position handed out to save a party money.
I just think of things as beautiful or not. Can't you understand? I don't think of good or bad. Just of beautiful or ugly. I think a lot of nice things are ugly and a lot of nasty things are beautiful.
As far as other instrumentalists, I used to love mellow sax players like Paul Desmond. I love piano.
Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it.