Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
My art has always been in response to visions. Rather than confine my subject to representations of the outer worlds, I include portrayals of the multi-dimensional imaginal realms that pull us toward consciousness evolution.
Cover this confirmation process with prayer. When they make it harder for us to pray, we just pray harder.
If we confound and break up the proposed unfolding the world impresses upon us, we can give ourselves the space to consider what we want to be as a species.
Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.
Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.
To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.
Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It's not the fight that crowns us, but the end.
Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.
No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
The notion that we have even one single veteran living on the streets should be just considered a travesty to all of us.
Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.
The universe doesn't owe us condolence or consolation; it doesn't owe us a nice warm feeling inside.
I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?
A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.
To us, basing stories on christianity is the same as basing stories on Roman mythology, Native American folklore, or unsubstantiated government conspiracies.
