Religion is hard work. Its insights are not self-evident and have to be cultivated in the same way as an appreciation of art, music, or poetry must be developed.
In every moment you have the choice to be a victim or a creator.
The world 'out there' won't change until the world 'in here' does.
When you blame and criticize others, you are avoiding some truth about yourself.
The three things you can offer your children to change them: attention, appreciation and affection.
Relinquish your attachment to the known, step into the unknown, and you will step into the field of all possibilities
The abuse of food, alcohol, or drugs is essentially a material response to a need that isn't really physical at its foundation. . What we are looking for is pure joy rather than mere sensation, or even oblivion of sensation. Addiction is unrecognized spiritual craving.
Songwriters are expanding time rather than compressing time. My short stories tend to be old fashioned, with a beginning, middle and end.
The technological overflow from scientific research has brought scientific research this bad name about carrying an irresponsibility and an alienation from God - because scientific research has led to things like the atom bomb, it's led to problems with depletion of ozone in the Earth's atmosphere, or at least it's revealed those problems.
There was this kind of wackiness that was really embraced and put on a pedestal. It was before the millennium. We were envisioning a future that was mostly idealistic. I think that came crashing down a little bit in 911, or a lot. There is something about Portland that does seem to still exist in this total idealistic world and total idealistic mind frame, and I think that's what Dream of the '90s is talking about.
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.