Just trusting the soul cannot lead you to higher consciousness. You have to pay attention for the beautification of your heart.
You don't have to have one emotion at a time.
What I suddenly understood was that a thank-you note isn't the price you pay for receiving a gift, as so many children think it is, a kind of minimum tribute or toll, but an opportunity to count your blessings. And gratitude isn't what you give in exchange for something; it's what you feel when you are blessed--blessed to have family and friends who care about you, and who want to see you happy. Hence the joy from thanking.
The greatest gift you can give anyone is your undivided attention.
But it takes so little to help people, and people really do help each other, even people with very little themselves. And it’s not just about second chances. Most people deserve an endless number of chances.
We all have a lot more to read than we can read and a lot more to do than we can do.
If I'd waited until I was well rested to read, I never would have read anything.
The energy I was sensing in audiences was political energy, as much as anything else.
Every man should be capable of all ideas.
RJD was pretty much heavy metal personified, a tiny 5-foot-4-inch sorcerer with a mangy mane, demonic eyes and sly grin, all coupled to a simply huge, operatic voice, a diminutive powerhouse who prowled the stage like a feline elf and who was, it turns out, also finely intelligent and well spoken, an actual gentleman in a genre known all too well for its bombastic, monosyllabic doltbuckets. A rare thing indeed.
My son is now an 'entrepreneur. ' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.