Oh yeah, the preacher's kid has to be the baddest one. If everyone is smoking weed, we've got to smoke crack. If you're throwing rocks, we've got to throw bigger rocks
You're as sick as your secrets.
As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy a rent-free space in your mind.
Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway.
Events do not really have beginnings or ends. Behind every event is the previous one, causing, or helping to cause, what follows.
You can be free from everything but the consequences of what you do.
nobody ever stops drinking until the cost of drinking becomes higher than the cost of not drinking.
The warnings about global warming have been extremely clear for a long time. We are facing a global climate crisis. It is deepening. We are entering a period of consequences.
As a spirit having a human experience, you can choose to not merely exist but to be fully conscious and aware of living in a limited world. When you take a conscious part in life and its multitudes of choices, you won't let life happen to you - you will make life happen for you.
Our society tends to regard as a sickness any mode of thought or behavior that is inconvenient for the system and this is plausible because when an individual doesn't fit into the system it causes pain to the individual as well as problems for the system. Thus the manipulation of an individual to adjust him to the system is seen as a cure for a sickness and therefore as good.
I learned from my parents the idea that, if you are devoted enough and you want to study something enough, you can really teach yourself anything.