Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit.
When you come together with your other half, you immediately experience a sense of wholeness and completeness.
In an evolutionary context, the goal of the spiritual life is not peace; it's perpetual development. Evolutionary enlightenment is about the ecstasy that compels us to create the future. And it's not a future that's going to unfold by itself while we go back to sleep. It's a future that we forge the hard way through direct, conscious, intentional engagement with the life-process itself.
Everybody wants to get enlightened but nobody wants to change.
The authentic self is the best part of a human being. It's the part of you that already cares, that is already passionate about evolution. When your authentic self miraculously awakens and becomes stronger than your ego, then you will truly begin to make a difference in this world. You will literally enter into a partnership with the creative principle.
Those of us who have transcended mythical belief systems know without any doubt that there is no God up in the sky. But when we awaken to what I call the evolutionary impulse - the mysterious passion to evolve, to become, to develop on every level-we rediscover who God is.
When you meditate you discover over and over again that you are not a prisoner of your mind.
Tyrion wondered what it would be like to have a twin, and decided that he would rather not know. Bad enough to face himself in a looking glass every day.
Such professions as the soldier and the lawyer. . . give ample opportunity for crimes but not much for mere illusions. . . . If you have lost a battle you cannot believe you have won it; if your client is hanged you cannot pretend that you have gotten him off.
Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.
For Christ, both God and man, must lay hold on us in order that there may be a union between Him and us.