For the gift of life, the only true thanks was in living fully, and facing death with honor.
Love is the omnipresent force of the universe; it unifies energy and consciousness.
Responsibility to self simply means to acknowledge inner truth-our imperfections and our power, our beauty.
Love brings you face to face with your self. It's impossible to love another if you cannot love yourself.
Energy and consciousness are in a continual state of interaction: energy is shaped and directed by consciousness which is itself driven by energy.
Spirituality, a defended person has no room for love or compassion-he is too busy defending himself.
Life is movement-we breathe, we eat, we walk-we move!
The character truest to itself becomes eccentric rather than immovably centered, as Emerson defined the noble character of the hero. At the edge, the certainty of borders gives way. We are more subject to invasions, less able to mobilize defenses, less sure of who we really are, even as we may be perceived by others as a person of character. The dislocation of self from center to indefinite edge merges us more with the world, so that we can feel blest by everything.
Fear hath the common fault of a justice of peace, and is apt to conclude hastily from every slight circumstance, without examining the evidence on both sides.
I was just a lot smarter about not getting caught. I mean, I never stuck anything in my arm, but I certainly enjoyed my youth.
Since 2008 you've had the largest bond market rally in history, as the Federal Reserve flooded the economy with quantitative easing to drive down interest rates. Driving down the interest rates creates a boom in the stock market, and also the real estate market. The resulting capital gains not treated as income.