I can't even go to the dry cleaner by myself anymore. You're seen in public with anybody that you might not even know, and you're speculated about.
Dreams are at the foundation of all religions.
In our society, to be obsessed with a vision about how to make a better automobile makes you a genius, but to be obsessed with a vision about the nature of reality makes you a nut.
A dream ignored is like a letter unopened.
Your dreams change. Initially the belly-buttons help establish the dreamer's predicament - the situation you are trapped in or held back by.
Direct religious experience is threatening to organized religion, which often mediates it with a rabbi or priest.
Historically, the rabbis are split on the question of dreams. None of them denied their power.
This changes nothing. It can't. You are my friend, my king,but that's. . . . All you can be. " He nodded, but it was a gesture that indicated that he heard her, not that he agreed, which was abundantly clear as he said, "And you are my queen, my savior, my partner---and that's everything.
Now, the past has plenty to teach us, but I don't think it should be allowed to detain us against our will.
The best part of basketball, for those people on the inside, is the bus going to the airport after you've won a game on an opponent's floor. It's been a very tough battle. And preferably, in the playoffs. And that feeling that you have, together as a group, having gone to an opponent's floor and won a very good victory, is as about as high as you can get.
I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.