Whether you realize it or not, you’re making up your mind all of the time. It is your mind…you’re not your mind’s person. So make up your mind to rise to the highest and best of who you are, and leap eagerly into the joyful life you’re creating.

- William DeFoore

And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence - Bertrand Russell

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Coming of age in a fascist police state will not be a barrel of fun for anybody, much less for people like me, who are not inclined to suffer Nazis gladly and feel only contempt for the cowardly flag-suckers who would gladly give up their outdated freedom to live for the mess of pottage they have been conned into believing will be freedom from fear ( Read more... )

Read Revolt of the Angels at Gutenberg.org"...angels like unto men feel love and hatred quicken within them. Capable, at times, of generous resolves, they too often follow their own interests and yield to fear. Then, as now, they showed themselves, for the most part, incapable of lofty thoughts, and in the fear of the Lord lay their sole virtue. ( Read more... )

You suffer because things are impermanent and you think they are permanent
- Thich Nhat Hanh

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