114 isn't as old as it used to be they say its the new 104.
I think that as human beings we tend to compartmentalize, and we have a selective morality based on the situation we're in.
I'm a 50 year-old guy and I'm not in shape like I was when I was 30.
We've had too many World AIDS Days.
I'd bought a lot of really challenging, cutting-edge Joel-Peter Witkin photographs very early on. There were severed heads and amputated feet and hands in them - gruesome stuff. I had them all around the house, and if someone couldn't relate to it in some artistic way and instead just said "Yuck," then there probably wouldn't have been anywhere for us to go.
When someone has a strong intuitive connection, Buddhism suggests that it's because of karma, some past connection.
I would say that the West is very young, it's very corrupt. We're not very wise. And I think we're hopeful that there is a place that is ancient and wise and open and filled with light.
I am a drinker with writing problems.
When I go biking, I repeat a mantra of the day's sensations: bright sun, blue sky, warm breeze, blue jay's call, ice melting and so on. This helps me transcend the traffic, ignore the clamorings of work, leave all the mind theaters behind and focus on nature instead. I still must abide by the rules of the road, of biking, of gravity. But I am mentally far away from civilization. The world is breaking someone else's heart.
I say love, and the world populates itself with doves.
Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.