I find writing really hard, but then, every author I know finds writing really hard work.
One of the small consolations of old age, if you are lucky, can be at least a partial recovery of innocence.
Years ago I heard the Indian Jesuit Raimundo Panikkar say: Expect Nothing.
Ideals are great as long as they don't get in the way of what we want to do.
Until we can sense a sacred quality in time we will not begin to have a fuller understanding of it.
I feel that the only true security I have is my capacity, however limited, to love.
We all have the right to be wrong and be loved just the same.
What wasdat, sir? What wazzat sir? What wassat, sir?” “Wayne, what are you babbling about?” Waxillium asked. “Practicing my pretzel guy,” Wayne said. “He had a great accent. . . ” Waxillium glanced at him. "That hat looks ridiculous. ” “Fortunately, I can change hats,” Wayne said in the pretzel-guy accent, “while you, sir, are stuck with that face.
Becca Gardner is wonderful as the good-hearted little Griff who refuses to be daunted by all the heart-ache and resentment on dad's ranch and this young actress proves there's another young child actress in Hollywood besides Dakota Fanning.
Kaz came to Switzerland where I was teaching to share with me [Heart Sutra] wondrous insight. There he and I worked on this new translation - with my part being to help render it into a verse form that would be good to chant. Since I have worked with many dying people over the years and often share the Heart Sutra with them, I found this new version that we created together to be so much more accessible to those who were facing death.
Germany and Austria have had positive experiences with strong states and a cooperative democracy. I am certain that this example could be helpful in a constructive debate on the Catalonian situation.