Broke is a Hollywood term!
I think that creativity depends on having sufficient indeterminacy around for a new pattern to arise up within it.
The universe is not in a steady state; there's an ongoing creative principle in nature, which is driving things onwards.
What you do, what you say and what you think can influence other people by morphic resonance. There is no immoral filter in morphic resonance, which means that we have to be more careful about what we are thinking if we are concerned about the affect we have on others.
The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle, leaving only the details to be filled in.
Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize that their opinions are based on faith. They think they know the truth.
In practice, the goal of skepticism is not the discovery of truth, but the exposure of other people's errors. It plays a useful role in science, religion, scholarship, and common sense. But we need to remember that it is a weapon serving belief or self-interest; we need to be skeptical of skeptics. The more militant the skeptic, the stronger the belief.
Often, we feel that we need a leader outside of ourselves -a Buddha, a Gandhi, or a Martin Luther King, Jr. - to show the way. But we have the Buddha inside of us. We have Gandhi and King inside of us as well. We are interconnected. We don't need to wait for some other person to be the change we want to see in the world
Commitment to love - to growth, to authentic power is an everyday application of your will.
Why do they blame me for all their little failings? They use my name as if I spent my entire days sitting on their shoulders, forcing them to commits acts they would otherwise find repulsive. 'The devil made me do it. ' I have never made one of them do anything. Never. They live their own tiny lives. I do not live their lives for them.
Ghana is like a lion without a head