When we have to make a list of exceptions to apply a model of womanhood, it is good to ask whether that model holds much meaning.

If mainstream culture thinks gender roles are unimportant, church culture makes them too important.

Through meditation we come to know that we are dying & being reborn in every moment.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtures are of no avail.

Awareness is conscious connection with universal intelligence. Another word for it is Presence: consciousness without thought.

Professional traders have always had some system or other based upon their experience and governed either by their attitude towards speculation or by their desires.

I like the immediacy of blogs and the democratizing effects of letting millions of voices bloom on the Web.

Fanaticism displays itself in the masses; but the masses were rarely fanaticised; and the crimes ascribed to it were commonly due to the calculations of dispassionate politicians.

Because there is a force that wants you to realize your Personal Legend; it whets your appetite with a taste of success

I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different.

I gave up coffee. It's almost worse than giving up a lover.

What is love but a second-hand emotion?