In small communities, she believed, people are more accountable to one another. Serious misbehavior is harder to get away with, harder even to begin when everyone who sees you knows who you are, where you live, who your family is, and whether you have any business doing what you’re doing.
I found that I couldn’t muster any belief in a literal heaven or hell, anyway. I thought the best we could all do was to look after one another and clean up the various hells we’ve made right here on earth.
Yes,” he said, “intelligence does enable you to deny facts you dislike.
His mistake was in seeing her as a young girl. She was already a missile, armed and targeted.
Human beings are more alike than different – damn sure more alike than we like to admit. I wonder if the same thing wouldn’t have happened eventually, no matter which two cultures gained the ability to wipe one another out along with the rest of the world.” Lilith.
We’ll have to be very careful how we allow our needs to shape us.
I lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm.
Was an eternity of absolute ease just another name for hell?
As a country, we’ve given up our birthright for even less than bread and pottage. We’ve given it up for nothing – although I’m sure some people somewhere are richer now.
Mars is a rock – cold, empty, almost airless, dead. Yet it’s heaven in a way. We can see it in the night sky, a whole other world, but too nearby, too close within the reach of the people who’ve made such a hell of life here on Earth.
We give lip service to acceptance, as though acceptance were enough. Then we go on to create super-people – super-parents, super-kings, and queens, super-cops – to be our gods and to look after us – to stand between us and God. Yet God has been here all along, shaping us and being shaped by us in no particular way or in too many ways at once like an amoeba – or like a cancer. Chaos.
Here we are – Energy, Mass, Life, Shaping life, Mind, Shaping Mind, God, Shaping God. Consider – We are born Not with purpose, But with potential.
She went to him. She adjusted, became a quieter more subdued person. She didn’t kill, but she seemed to die a little.
I’m sorry that astronaut will be brought back from her own chosen heaven.
Frankly, it never occurred to me that I needed someone who looked like me to show me the way. I was ignorant and arrogant and persistent and the writing left me no choice at all.”9.
Your body said one thing. Your words said another.” It moved a sensory arm to the back of his neck, looping one coil loosely around his neck. “This is the position,” it said. “I’ll stop now if you like.
Help us to make America great again.
Worship is no good without action. With action, it’s only useful if it steadies you, focuses your efforts, and eases your mind.
I began writing about power because I had so little.
Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.