Some relationships are like Tom and Jerry. They tease each other, knock down each other, irritate each other, but can’t live without each other.
People will ask me: Don’t you believe in God? No, I don’t. I believe in two things above all: Nature and Love. Nature is all-powerful. Love is how I understand the good. It might have been nice to believe in God, often defined as all-powerful and good, but combining the two like that has always posed too much of a contradiction for my poor mind to believe in.
They are forever free who renounce all selfish desires and break away from the ego-cage of ‘I’, ‘me’, and ‘mine’ to be united with the Lord. Attain to this, and pass from death to immortality.
If we are mindful of the true nature of reality, then we never truly lose anyone - even to death.
Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it…
