Accept and you become whole,Bend and you straighten,Empty and you fill,Decay and you renew,Want and you acquire,Fulfill and you become confused.

The sage accepts the worldAs the world accepts the Way;He does not display himself, so is clearly seen,Does not justify himself, so is recognized,Does not boast, so is credited,Does not pride himself ( Read more... )

How do I respond to your irrational fears? How do I convince you that you are mistaken, when you continue to hold to what you believe in the face of all the evidence? I struggled to know the answer to this for years. I lived in fear of your fear - in fear that it would some day emerge, and drown everything with it. And now it has emerged, and the ( Read more... )

"You know, sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left." - Itzhak Perlman

Quoted here.

The grace of God means something like: here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you. Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. I am with you. Nothing can ever separate us. It's for you I created the universe. I love you.

There's only one catch ( Read more... )

For the Christian the essence of honesty lies in being faithful not only to the truth but to the Truth. It means not denying Christ. It means that your whole life must now pivot around the commitment that he has made to you and you to him. Your every action, every thought, every word are true or false according to how they measure up to that ( Read more... )

"If I have to explain the irony, it would be a waste of time." - Michael Spencer

The very first science fiction story I ever read was by Lester Del Rey. I don't remember what it was called, but it was about a boy who lives on one of Jupiter's moons and his robot. The plot line is pretty much standard science fiction (the boy moves away, the robot is repurposed for some menial task, the boy runs away from home, the robot meets ( Read more... )

• Listen to your instinct
• Be who you are
• Do what you have to do
• Know what you believe
• If you begin to doubt, DON'T

It's as if one has stepped off a plane, and is cut loose from anything that might keep one from falling. The sensation is curious; the fear is so overwhelming that it no longer even is a factor. It disappears, or rather merges with the surrounding environment, becoming a constant part of it. One can struggle, but that's futile. No effort can stop ( Read more... )

The mind searches for answers, trying to determine why.

The heart knows that there are no answers; there are only choices.

The mind protests that there must be factors, there must be determinants, that something must be behind events.

The heart sighs, and waits for the mind to be still.

Then the heart cries, as part of it dies.