People turn to meditation because they want to make good decisions, break bad habits & bounce back better from disappointments.

Meditation may be done in silence & stillness, by using voice & sound, or by engaging the body in movement. All forms emphasize the training of attention.

Meditation is essentially training our attention so that we can be more aware— not only of our own inner workings but also of what’s happening around us in the here & now.

You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, Knew you not Pompey?

Is that the end... of all the races and civilizations, and the dreams of the world, to be able to leave a few stones buried beneath the sands, to tell the Dark that we were here?

During the season, most of my time to unwind is in my car ride home. When I get home, it's being with my kids.

e quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle" ("and thence we came forth to see again the stars")

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Success demands paranoia.

Can reason be an idol? Certainly. The philosophy of rationalism puts human reason in the place of God as the source and standard of all truth.

In an insane world, sanity made very little sense.

There's a reason they say,"Pride goeth before a fall.

Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.