A road need not be paved in gold to find treasures at its end.

Fear is good. In the right degree it prevents us from making fools of ourselves. But in the wrong measure it prevents us from fully living. Fear is our boon companion but never our master.

I've come to believe that how we choose to live with pain, or injustice, or death....is the true measure of the Divine within us.

Perhaps you need to look back before you can move ahead.

It is not just the history of the Hawaiian islands but the significance of the ordinary people whose lives - many quite extraordinary - make up that history.

But it's a poor church that cares only for what happens to a soul after it leaves this life." -Damien

Learn how to smile in the cannibal pot and life will be so much easier.

She already felt dead in everything but name. What remained to be taken from her? She longed to be enfolded, welcomed, into the earth - to breathe no more, love no more, hurt no more

What's it like? Being married?Cold feet. Middle of the night you're sleeping, suddenly, wham, you've got ice cold feet warming themselves on the back of your legs.

Surrounded by darkness yet enfolded in light

Isn't it strange, how one so afraid of contracting a fatal malady...should so earnestly wish for death, as well?

She just asked me to pick her up some tampons and a Yoo-Hoo." ~Alex Sinclair

The absolute best way to raise kind kids, is to be kind parents.

The journey is the destination.

Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. (1 Peter 5:8)

What is the mass of a feeling? What is its wavelength, its position on the electromagnetic spectrum?

A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says thinks or does is without consequences.

I will be really happy once I have done my jail time. I can start fresh.

All of us task-oriented obsessive compulsives must learn to slow down and let people into our lives.

Roads are a record of those who have gone before.

The highest art form of all is a human being in control of himself and his airplane in flight, urging the spirit of a machine to match his own.