ZADIE SMITH. — PUBLISHED “On Beauty” her masterpiece to my mind—a wise, sad and hilarious book about American race relations that would have justly been called a great American social novel had the American literary scene at that time been more attuned to race as a theme. KARAN MAHAJAN N.Y. TIMES AUGUST … Read more
Empowerment feminism is a cynical sham. . . . SEX panics obscure the actual object of a culture’s fears. . . . The modern sex panic’s signature characteristic is an inability and unwillingness to distinguish between degrees of misconduct. JILL LEPORE … Read more
WHAT I’M WILLING TO DO, WHICH THE MAINSTREAM CHURCH IS NOT, IS TO DENOUNCE THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT AS CHRISTIAN HERETICS. YOU don’t have to, as I did, spend three years at Harvard Divinity School to realize that Jesus didn’t come to make us rich. And he certainly didn’t come to make Pat Robertson and Joel Ostend … Read more
JOHN LENNON FEAR AND LOVE. WHEN WE ARE AFRAID, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We … Read more
THE IDEAL OF GOD is preached in order to make the perfect Being intelligible. However, the limitless God cannot be made intelligible to the limited self unless He is first made limited. Unfortunately most people cannot raise their imagination above what they are used to and cannot reach beyond their imagination to where the being of … Read more
IN DEVELOPING atomic or nuclear energy, science did not draw upon supernatural strength, but merely imitated the reaction of the sun’s rays. Atomic powers no more unnatural than when I sail my boat on Saranac Lake. ALBERT EINSTEIN THE PAIN OF LIFE IS THE PRICE PAID FOR THE QUICKENING OF THE HEART. HAZRAT INATAT … Read more
RELIGIONS PREACH HEAVEN AND HELL TO BRAINWASH YOU THROUGH FEAR. JOHN KESSLER I’VE BEEN SEARCHING FOR YEARS for the ideal place. And I’ve come to the realization that only way to find it is to be it. ALAN WATTS WHATEVER is my right as a man is also the right of … Read more
AND THOSE WHO WERE SEEN DANCING WERE THOUGHT TO BE INSANE BY THOSE WHO COULD NOT HEAR THE MUSIC. NIETZSCHE OUR JOURNEY is about being more deeply involved in life and yet less attached to it. RAM DASS … Read more
CLEVERNESS AND COMPLEXITY ARE NOT NECESSARILY WISDOM. THE HEART LIKE A BELL, wants striking, and in the resonance of the heart the purpose of that activity is fulfilled. HAZRAT KHAN UPON WAKING in the morning, consider the privilege it is to be alive, to have the ability to think, to experience … Read more
CONSTANT KINDNESS can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate. ALBERT SCHWEITZER WHEN I SEE BACON, I see a pig, I see a little friend, and that’s why I can’t eat it. Simple ass that. … Read more
