Perhaps adjustment and stabilization, while good because it cuts your pain, is also bad because development towards a higher ideal ceases?

I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.

In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.

We endure hardships by God’s grace.

I speak and help some folks only because I believe they may be god in flesh, testing me for politeness.

I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay rather than the novel.

We will never be able to solve the problems of tomorrow with the thinking of today

A woman whose heart is not touched by the sickness of sorrow and whose hands do not go out in relief where it is in her power to help, lacks one of the elements which make the glory of womanhood.

Ignoring the mind is a beautiful sadhana. This is what many of the sages did. They ignored the mind out of existence. It loses its influence and its potency when it is ignored.

My first calendar was a combination of photos taken from different shoots including golf and casual.

That's what I think people sense when they get hooked by surfing - hooked by their relationship with the ocean. All of a sudden, they're part of something that's bigger than them.

Messi or Ronaldo? I prefer Messi because he is more of a street player.