We live in a society that is afraid of ways of being it doesn't understand.
When people ask me if it has been a hard or easy road, I always answer with the same quotation, the end is nothing, the road is all. Willa Cather
Success is never so interesting as struggle
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
Some things are best learned in calm, others in storm.
Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.
When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.
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Cooking is an observation-based process that you can't do if you're so completely focused on a recipe.
Mindfulness, though so highly praised and capable of such great achievements, is not at all a "mystical" state, beyond the ken and reach of the average person. It is, on the contrary, something quite simple and common, and very familiar to us.
John Wayne is not just an actor, and a very fine actor - John Wayne is the United States of America.