Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

something delicious about advising your reiki instructor to stop stressing out

Buddhism, according to Tiger Woods ( Read more... )

ya qalbi ... ya dhi'bi... ya baiti... ya binti... ya yadayya... ya birati... ya aqlami... ya awradi... ya aseeri... ya jismi... ya aqli... ya nafsi... ya allahi... ya admullahi... ya nafs al-shay

Posit: The strong wish to see weakness in others. Submission will make them happy, because the strong desire to be the strongest ( Read more... )

Statistic against capital punishment:

"because of the expense of litigation and the appeals process, it costs, on average, $2.3 million to execute a prisoner in Texas-about three times the cost of incarcerating someone for forty years."

(taken from this brilliant + heartrending piece of reporting: )

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On "The Dead Sea" --

bass/guitar trading solos like warfare

I read a newspaper review of bestseller The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. The review, which was glowing, praised the author (David Wroblewski) for not letting "his own voice" interfere with the story. He was brilliantly capable of letting the story tell itself, as if it had no author but life... Then I read some Hunter S. Thompson. The opposite genius ( Read more... )

Atheists don't understand God. They don't know what they are arguing against. And the reason for this is that they take their concept of God from theists, who also don't understand God, and then oppose this falseness. The large majority of religious people have no understanding of God. So the atheists are right insofar as, say, literal belief in ( Read more... )