In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.
Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process.
The mind, in addition to medicine, has powers to turn the immune system around.
I pictured myself as a virus or a cancer cell and tried to sense what it would be like.
Evolution favors the survival of the wisest.
A wisdom deficit - fewer elders and even fewer people who listen to them.
I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.
I tell my students you have an absolute right to write about people you know and love. You do. But the kicker is you have a responsibility to make the characters large enough that you will not have sinned against them.
We should not and cannot change all our differences. Each of us brings from our own background things which we should share. There is good in diversity.
The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something. What nurtures this root and makes it grow into a tree is the script. What makes the tree bear flowers and fruit is the directing.
I do note with interest that old women in my books become young women on the covers. . . this is discrimination against the chronologically gifted.