On the whole, I now see my work as being an expression of my spiritual life and, because I look at it that way, I have a different centre. I go through the stress and pressure, but I think I'm lucky...
I read the Koran and it appealed to me. At the time I was agnostic and it really breathed spiritually back into me. For me it's really a cushion; it's cool, I'm cool with it.
But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggle for your dreams than to be defeated without ever even knowing what you're fighting for
Topica from Afar discusses many topics and ideas. It brings the far ranging to the here and now and it is meant to enlighten and teach those whose minds are open to endless possibilities. Being...
The deepest truth however is, that no love begins unconditional, but the only one that grows to be it, is the one that survives the breaking of all conditions, yet standing tall.
The most wonderful type of love, she had learned, was the kind built with care and over time, through forgiveness and understanding, compromise and compassion, trust and acceptance. It was hidden in...
You will know who wants you to succeed by the way they see the good in you before they ever see your flaws.
And oh, how she pitched herself into things. She would draw pictures all day long for weeks on end, then throw out the pencils and never draw another thing. Then it was embroidery with her, she had to...
Most of us must learn to love people and use things rather than loving things and using people.
I started out as an idea, but I ended up something more. Not much more to be honest. It's not like I grow up to become some great war hero or any sort of all-important savior...
Teaching at any level on any subject is the most rewarding thing you can do. I just love to see the expression on the face of a student who gets it for the first time. Just watching the learning...
And so he did the hardest thing he'd ever done in his life: he picked up his hat and walked away.
Try to understand where you are going and where you are, and it seems like your life has no meaning. But when you look back, the patterns emerge, and if you project yourself forward starting from...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...