"To be able to enjoy fully the many good things the world has to offer, we must be detached from them. To be detached does not mean to be indifferent or uninterested. It means to be nonpossessive. Life is a gift to be grateful for and not a property to cling to.

A nonpossessive life is a free life. But such freedom is only possible when we have a ( Read more... )

I kind of like school again. At least I don't feel quite so negative about it as I was in that last journal entry ( Read more... )

"Ik geloof dat ook onze fouten en vergissingen zin hebben en dat het voor God niet moeilijker is deze te gebruiken dan de daden waarvan we denken dat ze goed zijn ( Read more... )

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." Dr. Seuss

thats a cool quote. I was about to put it on my facebook profile but then I changed my mind because... sometimes those who mind do matter. but its still a good quote.

"we knew of no other attitudes, no opposition. Just one opinion and one belief ruled here; it sometimes seemed to me as if all these people were using exactly the same words and expressing themselves in the same way."

sounds like a place I used to know ;)
A place I still love and miss, but i'm glad I got away

"For fear, real fear...nestles in your memory like a gangrene: it seeks to rot everything, even the words with which to speak of it. So you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open ( Read more... )

pokarekare ana
nga wai o Waiapu
whiti atu koe hine
marino ana e

e hine e
hoki mai ra
ka mate ahau
i te aroha e

whati whati taku pene
ka pau aka pepa
ko taku aroha
mau tonu ana e

"When the Galilean boy brought his bread to the Lord, what did the Lord do with it? He broke it ( Read more... )

"All seems smooth and easy: where is the obstacle ( Read more... )

Zebrafish study may point way to blindness cure ( Read more... )