The idea is that people remember two things about an experience: the peak, and the end. In a poker game, when people think about another player they’ll mostly remember any really good hands that the player got, and how he was doing at the end of the game. You took care to win only on believable hands and to leave on a losing streak – you completely blanked their peak-end retention.
If he makes himself as good as he tells others to be, then he in truth can teach others. Difficult indeed is self-control.
All beings tremble before danger, all fear death. When a man considers this, he does not kill or cause to kill.
I love orgasms. I say a prayer of thanks to God for them every day.” “You say a prayer of thanks for orgasms?” Elle asked. “Of course. I mean, they’re a gift from God, right? A woman doesn’t need to have an orgasm to get pregnant, right?” “Right.” “So if they have nothing to do with reproduction, then why do women have them?” Kyrie asked. She raised her hand and pointed a finger up at the ceiling, at the sky, where God lived. “Orgasms are God’s way of saying He’s sorry about periods and cramps.
We declare that the world is not a mosaic, where a plurality of worlds which are essentially strangers to one another are fitted together, but that it is an organism – all of whose parts are governed by the same principle, revealing it and allowing reduction to it.
In school we learn things then take the test, In everyday life we take the test then we learn things. – Admon Israel.
8‘Our Lord, do not let our hearts deviate after You have guided us. Grant us Your mercy: You are the Ever Giving.
We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors. We borrow it from our children.
God’ is an excuse to justify hate.
Not everyone who attains Self-realization can make a reliable guide. I have been saying “he,” but this is not a role for men alone. My own teacher is my mother’s mother.
So Scheherazade began.
St. Macarius the Great says, “To pray often is in our will, but to pray truly is a gift of grace.
One of my favorite sayings, which I stole from the venerable copywriter Herschell Gordon Lewis, is: Sell results, not procedures. Any time you want to figure out how to get more money for what you sell, ask yourself this question: “How do I make what I give my customer more of a finished result and less of a procedure?
No matter how our hearts break, we bend toward life, don’t we? We bend toward hope.
Why the hell not?
Until further notice, celebrate everything.
Hard it is to train the mind, which goes where it likes and does what it wants. An unruly mind suffers and causes suffering whatever it does. But a well-trained mind brings health and happiness.
He also sware himself by a binding oath that whatever wife he married he would abate her maidenhead at night and slay her next morning to make sure of his honour;.
For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you.
You’re the kind of experience most people wait lifetimes for.