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What is a miracle if not the manifestation of light where darkness is expected?

God never cooperates with evil. He simply offers us the opportunity to transform the painful experiences in our lives into advantages and blessings. (Fr. Maximos)

The nature of consciousness is to point beyond itself. It is a tending toward or pointing to... Since consciousness points beyond itself, it is in its very being a self-transcendence.

​The human brain creates everything that you are.

Non-duality has been the root of all religious movements on this planet.

Suppose whatever we can recognize we can find. We can if P=NP.

There is no truth that does not ultimately rest upon what is evident to us in our own experience.

Each time a language dies, another flame goes out, another sound goes silent.

It was made clear to me that Music is related to everything, especially nature and language, but in order to speak it naturally, I had to first make myself a part of it.

You should not seek forgiveness after an unkind act. The act was done on purpose. You must first understand why the act occurred and then move forward.

The feeling of 'turning into your dad' is nothing compared to the realisation that your son is turning into you.

The overall result was drift punctuated by protest.

He had fallen in love with her emotions, and that was a very profound feeling indeed.

If Fred's history will seem less unbiased then some would wish, let it never be overlooked that it is no small task to record a history of hate when one is among the hated.

Too bad for any parent who has become accustomed to ruling by force, because at some point the kids just get too big to slap around.

We are known to be anti-authoritarian, anti-institutional, and notoriously anti-religious—more likely to quote Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Monty Python, or Star Trek than the Bible.

The universe does not reveal itself to undergraduates or fools: This is the entire premise of higher education.

A business needs a character and an identity, just like a person and just like a person it needs to have a Voice.

I have lost tolerance for things without meaning. There is no time for them. Does that make sense? - Sara Seager

There's nothing quite like a good quest for getting your blood pumping.

As far as Samson was concerned I was just another foreigner in pursuit of a lunatic quest.

Truth and untruth weave the seamless web of human nature.

The Ten Commandments, for example, were no more challenging than the Girl Scout oath, and why should anyone be tempted to put one false god ahead of another?

That is why it could happen anywhere, given the right ingredients: particular people in government, competing with others- or with each other- over natural and wealth-creating resources.

[P]erhaps this was how you knew a good deed was truly good: you didn't necessarily feel better afterwards.

The entire idea of sin, is based on books of the dead people. It is a sociological invention founded on textual fanaticism.

Constantinople had been changing for sometime before the Young Turks got hold of it. It would continue to change long after they had gone.

The city (of Vienna) had an unerring tradition of celebrating some of it's greatest composers after it had around them to die in poverty.

After 25 the only thing you’ll be precocious at is death.

Every choice is a renunciation. Indeed. Every choice is a thousand renunciations. To choose one thing is to turn one's back on many others.

While I cannot prevent the birds from flying over my head, I can prevent them from making a nest in my hair. - Chapter 5 My Cinderella

But in Africa bureaucrats are usually too proud to accept a bribe, something I admire when I'm not the one being arrested.

It's been said before: 'The sleep of reason produces monsters.

Love covers all shortcomings and failures, overlooks one's mistakes and does not bring to mind one's past mistakes - My Last Letter, Chapter 1

Sir, I cannot sing. I have no formal training. I do not read music. And I know this is a church - but I play a mean harmonica.

If faith makes people buy an entire package of myths and values without asking too many questions, scientists are only slightly better.

So I do fear death in the sense that I find the prospect of dying pretty scary. But I no longer fear that I will one day be annihilated and cease to exist.

It is remarkable how often the first interpretations of new evidence have confirmed the preconceptions of its discoverers.

Reputation became the pirates' sharpest sword.

The point is, the "best" technology or idea doesn't always prevail. Sometimes chance and the law of unintended consequences win out.

A God who punishes disobedience will teach us to obey and endure when it would be holy to protest and righteous to refuse to cooperate.

As an adult, getting paid thousands of dollars a week to say, “Aye, Sir. Course laid in” is a seriously sweet gig, but when I was a teenager, it sucked.

Ideas are like bananas. That bananas grow only in tropical regions doesn't make them any less delicious in Scandinavia.

First of all, nothing good ever came from a beanbag chair. Nothing. I am speaking from personal experience.

If you can’t see the feelings in a donkey, a ship, or a delicate tool, then it’s just as easy to not see them in your brother or sister when you can profit by treating them badly.

It was too late for he and his father to have an adventure, and NOTHING seemed to have any color anymore.

Religion doesn't divide the society. The humans reading the wrong books to understand religion, do.

Alan McCluskey“Despair is an ugly thing when it refuses hope.

We fail in the work of grace and love when there is too much of us and not enough of God.

I realized the preserving a relationship at all costs was not as important as affirming the human right to be free from abusive treatment.