Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds’ wings.
Our aspirations, our affections, and our desires are turned towards the wrong things. And only when we turn them towards the right things will things get better.
God's promises are like the stars; the darker the night the brighter they shine.
-David Nicholas
We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
-Jim Rohn
Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness towards the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous and indifference towards the wicked.
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
-Irving Kristol
