When my oldest brother started acting. From there, I wanted to act myself. That's the long story short.
All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. If we do not transform our pain, we will transmit it to those around us.
A good teacher teaches people how to see, not what to see.
Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing.
If you don't transform your suffering, you'll transmit it.
Life is not a matter of creating a special name for ourselves, but of uncovering the name we have always had.
Jesus liberated us from religion. Jesus taught simple religious practices over major theorizing. The only thoughts Jesus told us to police were our own: our own negative thoughts, our own violent thoughts, our own hateful thoughts-not other people's thoughts.
Let woman's claim be as broad in the concrete as the abstract. We take our stand on the solidarity of humanity, the oneness of life, and the unnaturalness and injustice of all special favoritism, whether of sex, race, country, or condition. If one link of the chain is broken, the chain is broken.
The great Mediator asks for our repentance not because we must ‘repay’ him in exchange for his paying our debt to justice, but because repentance initiates a developmental process that, with the Savior’s help, leads us along the path to a saintly character
Each soul enters with a mission. We all have a mission to perform.
The best intentions (of respect and tolerance) can often be annoying to those whose cultures are not in dominance: we feel that we are often zoological specimens.