Fear is a thief. It robbed Peter of a perfectly good walk on water, & kept the other eleven in the boat.
If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
I used to pray that God would feed the hungry, or do this or that, but now I pray that he will guide me to do whatever I'm supposed to do, what I can do. I used to pray for answers, but now I'm praying for strength. I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us and we change things.
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter. We sometimes lose sight of this force when there is suffering, too much pain. Then suddenly, the spirit will emerge through the lives of ordinary people who hear a call and answer in extraordinary ways.
Give your hands to serve and your hearts to love.
Perhaps to restore human freedom we should deny determinism ?
The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.
I immediately split the crowd. I thought about coming on every night and shouting, Gay pride, white power! just to confuse people.
I write both, as you know, dozens of ecological and social scientific and historical works, dozens of novels. It's hard to describe a novel that grapples with the horrors of World War II as anything but grueling. But Codex Orféo is somehow. . . well, I hope, riveting for readers. Deeply provocative. Cinematic in a nearly surreal sense.