We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
We always want to change the channel in our minds because we don't like what's going on. It's uncomfortable.
Be fully present for five minutes every day.
We eat the way we live.
Take time to thank your body.
Your body is the piece of the Universe youve been given.
For every diet there's an equal and opposite binge (bulimia which is binging and purging is another way of depriving yourself).
We don't want to feel less when we have finished a book; we want to feel that new possibilities of being have been opened to us. We don't want to close a book with a sense that life is totally unfair and that there is no light in the darkness; we want to feel that we have been given illumination.
It's different everywhere you go. I'm lucky I'm drawn into people who love and support me. I'm sheltered from that life. I see how all over the world there's so much oppression and pain. I'm living in a bubble.
How's the Angel of Death supposed to do his job with clipped wings?
I gazed around the room and my eyes stopped dead on a little boy standing in the corner. This was a particularly eerie doll. Life-sized and blond-haired and blue-eyed. I saw a little Nazi boy, pockets probably stuffed with scissors and retractable blades. My grandfather on my mother's side was rumored to be half Jewish, which practically makes me Jerry Seinfeld's brother, and thus wary of blond German boys with their hands out of sight.