With a versatile player, there's no spot on the court you can't pass him the ball. You can do anything.
Nations and governments come and go, but people remain, and therefore people are the ultimate foundation of what is real and worthy.
The trees which are pruned, watered and nurtured by caring hands bear the greatest fruits; it is the same with people.
Mean people are really just sad people. They hurt others because they are hurting. Every person is born beautiful, and much of the ugliness in others was put inside of them by other hurting people.
Love only serves and does not calculate.
When one learns to focus energy through surrender and sensitivity, they become free, and can access the expansiveness of endless possibility.
Control thought-forms are the basis of our deepest moral crisis.
Gradually, by selective breeding, the congenital differences between rulers and ruled will increase until they become almost different species. A revolt of the plebs would become as unthinkable as an organized insurrection of sheep against the practice of eating mutton.
My mentality is: I'm going to do it. I'm going to eat a lot of food, and then I'm going to complain about it when I see myself on camera.
I love the feeling of nostalgia vying with the present. That can be from song to song, or within the same song.
Prayer requires that we stand in God's presence with open hands, naked and vulnerable, proclaiming to ourselves and to others that without God we can do nothing. As disciples, we find not some but all of our strength, hope, courage, and confidence in God. Therefore, prayer must be our first concern.