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Whenever I allow anything but tenderness and compassion to dictate my response to life--be it self-righteous anger, moralizing, defensiveness, the pressing need to change others...I am alienated from my true self. My identity as Abba's child [a child of God] becomes ambiguous, tentative and confused

How you gather, manage, and use information will determine whether you win or lose.

I’m a writer, and everything I write is both a confession and a struggle to understand things about myself and this world in which I live. This is what everyone’s work should be-whether you dance or paint or sing. It is a confession, a baring of your soul, your faults, those things you simply cannot or will not understand or accept. You stumble forward, confused, and you share. If you’re lucky, you learn something.

The victimization of children is nowhere forbidden; what is forbidden is to write about it.

Being stubborn can be a good thing. Being stubborn can be a bad thing. It just depends on how you use it.

If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.

Use your own intuition. You are tomorrow.

Your brain is much better than you think; just use it!

Home is the nicest word there is.

I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy. They deserve our devoted attention, not our divided attention.

I never use the word nation in speaking of the United States. I always use the word Union or Confederacy. We are not a nation but a union, a confederacy of equal and sovereign States.

We are living in dangerously weird times now. Smart people just shrug and admit they're dazed and confused. The only ones left with any confidence at all are the New Dumb. It is the beginning of the end of our world as we knew it. Doom is the operative ethic.

Money is really worth no more than as it can be used to accomplish the Lord's work. Life is worth as much as it is spent for the Lord's service.

Perhaps my children will live in stone houses and walled towns - Not I

Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level.

Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers.

A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, for such a society is a house built upon sand.

Knowledge without practice is useless. Practice without knowledge is dangerous.

The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality.

Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.

The job of the poet is to use language effectively, his own language, the only language which is to him authentic.

Power is the great evil with which we are contending. We have divided power between three branches of government and erected checks and balances to prevent abuse of power. However, where is the check on the power of the judiciary? If we fail to check the power of the judiciary, I predict that we will eventually live under judicial tyranny.

I remember when A love Supreme was released - I heard it at a friends house. ... Man it was incredible. That record sounded different than the rest. I was trying to gather my spirituality together, trying to get an understanding of life ..... I felt Coltrane was the first musician who made a transition from one side to the other.

The inner master, when confronted with an obstacle, uses it as fuel, like a fire which consumes things that are thrown into it. A small lamp would be snuffed out, but a big fire will engulf what is thrown at it and burn hotter; it consumes the obstacle and uses it to reach a higher level.

Eliminate the cause of a mistake. Don't just clean it up.