top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Religion either produces the very best people or the very worst."
Standard
Customized
More
"We don't see a lot of models for male social interaction. There's sports and barn raisings."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Religion either produces the very best people or the very worst."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Those who most obstinately oppose the most widely - held opinions more often do so because of pride than lack of intelligence. They find the best places in the right set already taken, and they do not want back seats."
Author Name
Personal Development
"But maybe they were barbarians. Maybe this is what most barbarians look like. They look like everybody else."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Often we don't notice the stringent rules to which our culture subjects us."
Author Name
Personal Development
"What fueled this hatred? Society."
Author Name
Personal Development
"A priest is a functionary of a social sort. The society worships certain deities in a certain way, and the priest becomes ordained as a functionary to carry out that ritual. The deity to whom he is devoted is a deity that was there before he came along. But the shaman's powers are symbolized in his own familiars, deities of his own personal experience. His authority comes out of a psychological experience, not a social ordination."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday's and today's school dropouts are keeping body and soul together by some form of hustling in the same way I did."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Misunderstanding a culture's symbols is a common root of predujice."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"Whatever good, true, or perfect things we can say about humanity or creation, we can say of God exponentially. God is the beauty of creation and humanity multiplied to the infinite power."
Spiritual
"If you do not acquire good training in detachment, you may attach to all the wrong things."
Philosophy
"You ironically have to have a very strong ego structure to let go of your ego. You need to struggle with the rules more than a bit before you throw them out. You only internalize values by butting up against external values for a while."
Ego
"A skilled listener can help people tap into their own wisdom."
Listening
"God created us for love, for union, for forgiveness and compassion and, yet, that has not been our storyline. That has not been our history."
Language
"I would wonder if you could be a hero or heroine if you did not live in deep time, that is, Past, present, and future all at once."
Dream
"Church practice has been more influenced by Plato than by Jesus. We invariably prefer the universal synthesis, the answer that settles all the dust and resolves every question even when it is not entirely true over the mercy and grace of God."
Theology
"God seems to be about turning our loves around and using them toward the great love that is their true object."
Alignment
"Life is all about practicing for heaven.' p 101."
Philosophy
"In the second half of life, people have less power to infatuate you. But they also have much less power to control you or hurt you."
Aging
bottom of page