In China we don’t consider a person really beautiful until we know them for a long time and then we know what lies behind their facade. — Zhang Ziyi * Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling…

“At a certain age, which varies according to people but is placed towards quarantine, life begins to seem…slow, sterile, unattractive, repetitive, as if every day was nothing but the plagiarism of the previous. Something in us has turned off: enthusiasm, energy, ability to project, spirit of adventure, or simply an…

Every time the church pictures God as having a special love for Americans or for Western civilization we are justifying and therefore participating in centuries of murder, robbery and exploitation… Religions grow out of particular cultures. They start with the frailties of their birthplace. The question is whether they will…

…When we examine our blood streams under a microscope, we see that there’s one hell of a fight going on. All sorts of microorganisms are chewing each other up. And if we got overly fascinated with our view of our own blood streams in the microscope, we should start taking…

The rat wheel, sourced by being told we were born bad, judged before we walked, particularly female children….our spirit was broken, our wholeness taken, then taking the land, our time and bodies is easy. So taking back our soul, our spirit and seeing ourselves as whole and worthy is essential…

The relation of art to life is of the first importance especially in a skeptical age since, in the absence of a belief in God, the mind turns to its own creations and examines them, not alone from the aesthetic point of view, but for what they reveal, for what…

Winnicott describes babies as ‘spontaneous’, meaning they don’t think about the way they act, they just do whatever they need to — which, if you’ve ever been around a baby, tends to be a lot of needing help and reassurance. Needing help and reassurance, Winnicott argues, is the essential stuff…

… At a certain moment in his (Nietzsche’s) life, the idea came to him of what he called ‘the love of your fate.’ Whatever your fate is…you say, ‘This is what I need.’ It may look like a wreck, but go at it as though it were an opportunity, a…

Chaplain: Let us praise God. Oh Lord… Congregation: Oh Lord… Chaplain: Oooh you are so big… Congregation: Oooh you are so big… Chaplain: So absolutely huge. Congregation: So ab — solutely huge. Chaplain: Gosh, we’re all really impressed down here I can tell you. Congregation: Gosh, we’re all really impressed…