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“Cultures produce myths because they satisfy a deep-rooted human need: the need to make sense of life. Myths are appealing because they reduce the complexity of experience, by making things seem sim...”
“The hope crashes into reality and people get hurt.”
“So the key is doing something that sets you apart forever in the minds of regular people.Something that matters.”
“Where the Divine and the Human Meet" shows how important it is to meet the world with the creativity of an artist, particularly in these uncertain times: "What do we do with chaos? Creativity has a...”
“We are not consumers. For most of humanitys existence, we were makers, not consumers: we made our clothes, shelter, and education, we hunted and gathered our food.We are not addicts. I propose that...”
“where does creativity come from? Creativity comes from the Universe itself. There is music and poetry in the Universe itself surely we hear it on planet earth. And Creativity comes from our joys ...”
“If your are afraid to fail then you're afraid to succeed.”
“beauty is beyond comprehension, beyond nature, it lies within the mind of a soul so divine as if it was created to divide the line between night and day.”
“I know nothing, I say, cheerfully.You never seem to. Have you ever wondered why that is?Its very deliberate. Ive found that knowledge is usually a burden. I prefer to be surprised and then eventual...”
“May I not safely credit her assertions? Will it not be easy for me to forget her sex, and still consider her as my Friend and my disciple? Surely her love is as pure as She describes. Had it been t...”
“Past and Future exist in the mind. They exist in the outside world. The mind is shaped by the physical world. Past and future however do NOT exist within the body. Because the present moment is all...”
“Live in the mysterious. Accepting and being fully at peace with not knowing what's going to happen in the future will allow us to be fully present and more peaceful in the present.”
“If I had lost everything and was out on the streets with no money I would go sit in the library and read and meditate for weeks at a time.”
“Intuition is the silent knowledge of your soul.”
“Read for the sake of using others knowledge to find your own inner guidance.”
“..and though my internal organs were Barry White, my stamina had skipped CDs and decided to be more Vanilla Ice.”
“I'd done it, I'd crossed the line between accepted behavior and behavior most of the population would consider a lynching offense, and that morning I felt as real as any of the men in the Escape co...”
“He parked his car carefully, made sure he'd set all the locks and the alarm. On the steps he kept looking behind him, snapping glances into shadows like he expected this to be a set-up with my gang...”
“I slept and the night rolled over into day like a dog. Another post-meridian awakening - sunshine on empty bottles, tangled clothes. I dozed while the temperature rose.”
“All your life you look to America for those home-grown, corn-fed tits that the Yank bitches all sprout when theyre about fourteen those bulging DDs that you wank about as a kid as you look longing...”