I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
Travel is like a good challenging book: It demands presentness-the ability to live completely in the moment.
What happened on September 11th is at least, theoretically, small stuff compared to what can happen.
If you look at the history of the U. S. , we were an empire long before we were a nation.
It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but an empire nonetheless.
The first thing to recognize not just about Afghanistan but about any poor undeveloped country is that as big as it looks on the map, it's much bigger when you're there.
Prostitution, black marketeering, and informing on ones neighbors and friends all had such a deep-rooted tradition in Romania that there was a charming naturalness and innocence about it.
To contact the deeper truth of who we are, we must engage in some activity or practice that questions what we assume to be true about ourselves.
The moment you have faith, there is the experience. The moment you have trust, there is realization, there is enlightenment. Then this world no longer exists as the world. The world exists as the Self. It exists as God. And then, with our physical eyes, we can see the light of God everywhere and in everything.
Time, which runs through the world like an endless tinsel thread, seemed to pass through the centre of this room and through the centre of these people and suddenly to pause and petrify, stiff, still and glittering. . . and the objects in the room drew a little closer together.
Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking.