We are dominated on this planet by a fear-based rather than a love-based thought system.
What immigration really does is redistribute wealth away from workers toward employers.
Being without work [in the United States] is still far better for most people than being employed in Central America.
When you're desireless you are happy because you are never disappointed, you are never nervous. So to be desireless doesn't mean that you become something absurd or ascetic or anything like that, but not to expect something.
When I start asking my friends, "What do you think this means?" And it leads to way more interesting conversations than what it actually ends up meaning in the dictionary. Like "apocryphal," for instance.
Peace isn't the mere absence of violence; peace must come from inner peace. And inner peace comes from taking others’ interests into account.
The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs.