With a kiss you can strip me defenseless.
Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate.
Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and linear causality.
Consciousness does not just passively reflect the objective material world; it plays an active role in creating reality itself.
This sense of perfection has a built-in contradiction, one that Ram Dass once captured very succinctly by a statement he had heard from his Himalayan guru: "The world is absolutely perfect, including your own dissatisfaction with it, and everything you are trying to do to change it.
He suddenly understood the message of so many spiritual teachers that the only revolution that can work is the inner transformation of every human being.
In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival.
From all who dwell below the skiesLet the Creator's praise arise;Let the Redeemer's name be sungThrough every land, by every tongue.
As a Christian should do no injuries to others, so he should forgive the injuries that others do to him. It is to be like God, who is a good-giving God, and a sin-forgiving God.
Being named as a finalist for the USA Basketball National Team is an unbelievable feeling and an opportunity that is truly humbling. It is an honor to be included with such talented players and I look forward to the chance to represent my country this summer.
As a young black boy, it made me proud to see black leaders that did something amazing and made the world change.