God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance.
Take charge of your schedule. Make time for reflection and relaxation.
Unless a person knows how to give order to her thoughts, attention will be attracted to whatever is most problematic at the moment.
Each of us is born with two contradictory sets of instructions: a conservative tendency, made up of instincts for self-preservation, self-aggrandizement, and saving energy, and an expansive tendency made up of instincts for exploring, for enjoying novelty and risk-the curiosity that leads to creativity belongs to this set. But whereas the first tendency requires little encouragement or support from outside to motivate behaviour, the second can wilt if not cultivated.
Happiness does not simply happen to us. It's something that we make happen.
For original ideas to come about, you have to let them percolate under the level of consciousness in a place where we have no way to make them obey our own desires or our own direction. Their random combinations are driven by forces we don't know about.
Find a way to express what moves you.
All are interconnected. . . the environment; rights of the dying; care of caregivers; education and medical care for peoples of the Himalayas; prison work; those living on the margins of society, particularly kids.
Depression is very bad illness. This will be the toughest fight of my life.
I was about 6 or 7, I would have said I wanted to be an actor and an artist. And that just kind of kept honing itself around film and getting closer to film.
God's covenant with the church and Israel is unbreakable.