I always tried to win. I was as competitive as I am today.
All religions proclaim the advantages of peace, loving one another, and "doing to others what we would like them to do to us. "
One of the great purposes of religion itself is being hindered by an exclusive-ism that doesn't take into account the common elements and values that we actually share.
While doing centering prayer, the practice is to let go of any thought or perception. The priority is to be as silent as possible and when that is not possible to let the noise of the thoughts be the sacred symbol for a while, without analyzing them.
In centering prayer, the sacred word is not the object of the attention but rather the expression of the intention of the will.
If you accept the belief that baptism incorporates us in the mystical body of Christ, into the divine DNA, then you might say that the Holy Spirit is present in each of us, and thus we have the capacity for the fullness of redemption, of transformation.
God is a tremendous supporter of creation, especially of all living beings.
Always have an answer - even if you change your mind five minutes later.
Even though the topic [of slavery] itself is the big, screaming elephant in the room, we still get a chance to have fun and enjoy what is on the screen, and we have moments where we're actually happy.
My fear is that I will be crushed in an elevator and my mother will get hold of my journals from my adolescence.
My father being a Caribbean minister, one day I stole the radio. The radio that I stole, I took it to school, showing off how big this boom box was and how bad I was at the time. Once my father figured out where I left the radio, he then got his belt and he walked me, he beat me all the way to where I had hid the radio, and with the boom box.