Every corpse on Mount Everest was once an extremely motivated person.
I think I am therefore I might be.
Authority as a means of applying pressure. And here I was, using a little piece of paper to pretend I had authority... However, it appears that most of life’s mechanisms rely on similar tricks – marriages, companies, nation-states, armies.
A shadow has fallen in the room. The baby pays no attention – she bites the foreign finger, cooing and squealing. I feel a lump rising in my throat. She seems like a miracle to me, pink and white with copper curls, flowering here in this desolate, half-looted room, among us adult human beings so mired in filth. And suddenly I realize why the warriors are drawn to the little baby.
Do you want to come tomorrow for dinner, or forever?
Pets are like infants that never grow up. Forever children. We love them for that.
The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress.
Getting something done is an accomplishment; getting something done right is an achievement.
Something strange is happening – there is a great silence on earth today, a great silence and stillness. The whole earth keeps silence because the King is asleep.
20 Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.
Don’t let reality ruin your day!
Hethin was at home with his father, King Hjorvarth, in Norway. Hethin was coming home alone from the forest one Yule-eve, and found a troll-woman ; she.
It’s like, if they don’t know, God doesn’t know. And I want to go to Heaven.
I’ve learned so much from my mistakes, I’m thinking of making some more.
Sharing our stories, our feelings, it is the area where we are the same that impresses me. The differences are but delightful flourishes on the surface, like different-colored costumes, and I enjoy them. But the basic ways we are human, the basic ways we simply are, stand out to me now. I came to see we are all really one, and I no longer feel alone.
Why would I want to be the lover of a broken oven that fails in the cold, a flimsy door that the wind blows through, a palace that falls on its staunchest defenders, a mouse that gnaws through its thin reed shelter, tar that blackens the workman’s hands, a waterskin that is full of holes and leaks all over its bearer, a piece of limestone that crumbles and undermines a solid stone wall, a battering ram that knocks down the rampart of an allied city, a shoe that mangles its owner’s foot?
Living Limitlessly.
Observe without judgement.
In those days the world teemed, the people multiplied, the world bellowed like a wild bull, and the great god was aroused by the clamor. Enlil heard the clamor and he said to the gods in council, “The uproar of mankind is intolerable and sleep is no longer possible by reason of the babel.” So the gods agreed to exterminate mankind.
There is no fire like lust, no sickness like hatred, no sorrow like separateness, no joy like peace. 203No disease is worse than greed, no suffering worse than selfish passion. Know this, and seek nirvana as the highest joy.