. . . love given without free will or truthfulness wasn't love at all.
This mystical stream [contemplative prayer] is the Western bridge to Far Eastern spirituality.
For many years, I have kept in my office an ink drawing of two smiling figures with their arms around each other: Jesus Christ and Gautama Buddha, with the caption: "Jesus and Buddha must be very good friends. " They are not the same, but they are friends, not enemies, and they are not indifferent to one another.
It is such an innocent, intuitively discerning mind that helps make the Eastern guru and the Desert Abba "master". Where intimate Source radiates among non-Christians then surely we must be dealing with the "other sheep" manifesting the cosmic Christ.
The more your players have to think on the basketball court, the slower their feet get.
I was going on years and years of auditions and being told I was too this, too that, not enough of this, not enough of that, to the point where I was so afraid and diluting myself into absolutely nothing.
All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service.
Today, with America being a beleaguered global power, in part because of its own mistakes, it is absolutely essential that the American democracy refocuses its concerns towards global issues and does not approach its own specific problems on the basis of, to some extend, self-induced fear.