“Often because the attempt to practice it is misunderstood, discouraged, brought under attack, or made a target of willful abuse.”

They both have a tendency to blur the lines of what we call norms, or established reality.

With something closer to love in its most empowering and healing sense.

Life possesses an amazing array of profoundly sad faces.

Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out of its own way by finding the courage to realize that love and nonviolence

And to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.

And a hunger for meaning beyond the flavors that enter and exit the physical body. A person might even be described as a self-contained multiverse.

A man sitting monkey-like on the rooftop of his brain is due the applause such feats earn him.

The thorn is a bridge spanning the muddy depths of agony and sorrow so that one may on the other side dance to the drums of the rose of joy.

Overall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings.

This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.

Humanity is not without answers or solutions regarding how to liberate itself from scenarios that invariably end with mass exterminations.

The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion – cools your fears with peace.

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As goes love so goes life.

The definitive freedom-sustaining and life-enhancing principles of democracy in living action.

When you’re accustomed to wealth, you don’t show it, right? That’s why the white kids in school could wear bummy sneakers; it’s almost like, ‘Don’t show wealth – that’s crass.’

One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.

All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.

And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.

So endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.

The public is accustomed to it, expects little from it and therefore takes little notice of it.

Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.