I describe myself as a "spiritual sampler," raised Catholic, been Baptist, Methodist, and a Unity member.
You can't conquer reality by running away from it.
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
If I must be a slave to habit let me be a slave to good habits.
So long as I can laugh, never will I be poor.
I'd rather learn how to prevent failure than how to gain success, because for what is success other than a state of mind?
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
O God, do not leave me. I have done nothing good in Your sight, but according to Your goodness, let me now make a beginning of good.
The immaterial told me that I was indeed an occidental, a right-thinking Christian who believes in the 'Resurrection of the flesh'. A whole phenomenology then appeared, but a phenomenology without ideas, or rather without any of the systems of official conventions. What appeared was distinct from form and became Immediacy. 'The mark of the immediate' - that was what I needed.
We have seen economic growth. But we have not seen earnings growth.
I am pessimistic, I think that's the best way to be, because if you're always expecting the best - the best doesn't always happen. Nine times out of 10 it doesn't. I'm surprised when things go smoothly. I don't know what's wrong with being pessimistic - unless you are such a pessimist that you don't do anything.