When we 'lose ourselves' in play, we find something greater--the nameless, formless, and mysterious essence of all creation.

Health and happiness are the two most precious and elusive of human conditions. At their core, they are one and the same. Both are a function of balance.

Meditators dream of attaining the single-pointed focus that young children experience naturally when they play. Spiritual aspirants long for the rapture that defines moments of pure delight.

Actually, you can be bad at something...but if you love doing it, that will be enough. - August Boatwright

Wednesday had come and gone in a single breath. As I dreamt of divine love, Picasso, and a vast field of gold, a new dawn had already begun.

In our springtime there is no better, there is no worse.Blossoming branches burgeon as they must.Some are long, some are short.Stay upright.Stay with life.

Perception of personal danger very often set people on the path of virtue.

Our atheist thoughts go out to his family following their loss.

Just the thought of you and all the universe conspires against me.

To this day, most people think of me as the fastest human. They don't really think me as a long jumper, although that's the event I had more success in.

I don't consider China a communist state, no. I know that sounds paradoxical, but it's my view.

It may be concluded that a pure democracy . . . can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction.

In Land of Milk and Money, Anthony Barcellos mines rich family history to create a full-blooded tale that readers will find insightful, rewarding, and entertaining.