As my mind can conceive of more good, the barriers and blocks dissolve. My life becomes full of little miracles popping up out of the blue.
To shoot a gun proficiently, including speed shooting, is much less of a skill than typing.
Society is better off without certain people.
When you are surrounded by four people, one of them smiling, taunting, demanding, terrorizing, you don't have a complete grasp or perfect vision.
Prior to being mugged I did not feel I had to carry a gun. However, I knew how to shoot a gun very proficiently. As a boy, I used to play cowboys and Indians all the time.
I don't regret pulling the trigger. I should have been more careful with many of the things I said afterwards. That was a big regret.
Anyone, any type of story, it doesnt have to be a crime victim, you dont have to let yourself be food for the media.
Will you be slack, brethren, and let the evil come upon us, when we forewarn you of the future events that are coming;. . . We are telling of what the prophets have said-of what the Lord has said to Joseph. Wake up now, wake up, O Israel, and lay up your grain and your stores. I tell you that there is trouble coming upon the world.
let's be honest: ignoring is acting, and nothing more - acting as though the words, or actions of your oppresors don't hurt. you hear the words, you feel the insults, and you bear the blows. you can act deaf and impervious to pain, but the stabs and the arrows pierce you anyway.
The neurotic keeps minute track of his enemies; it is only his friends he is careless about.
Finding the courage to go to the places that scare us cannot happen without compassionate inquiry into the workings of ego. . . Openness doesn't come from resisting our fears but from getting to know them well.