When we are calling forth the depth and genius of the other, then we grow.
The ideas are secondary to the primary premise of people's potential. I'm always in wonder and astonishment.
Over-intellectualizing can justify practically anything. Reason has reasons that can create holocausts. In the 20th century, we have certainly seen how much killing and disaster has been championed with superb intellectual reasons.
Journalists are among a select group, along with warriors and executioners who are authorized to do harm. As James Fallows says, a lot of journalists think that isn't so, and that everything will wash out ultimately. But I don't think they are aware of the long-term damage.
What I find on the Internet is fascinating because whole subcultures are developing. And they really are cultures. They have their art forms, their music, and their language. They have their spirituality, they have new names. It's almost like watching colonies of little organisms develop under a petri dish. You can really see these cultures swarming and growing and developing and spawning on the Internet.
I'm a computer freak. I'm on the Internet every night. Sometimes I play dungeons and dragons with 15-year-old boys who think I'm a 15-year-old boy with a weird vocabulary.
If you're looking ecologically, then we are in very big trouble, yes. But if you're talking about people sinking, I'm not so sure that's true. There are cycles of rise and fall, as there have been since time immemorial.
We're in a decaying culture now. Naturally, the young people in the culture are going to feel themselves to be products of the decay.
I'm very much an animal and nature person.
I find you have to come as litmus paper and be available to whatever way you can be.
Vulnerable is a catch-all word like "love" and "schizophrenia."
I've been around for a very long time, I've been around since God had baby cheeks.
Paul Brunton was a great original and got to a place of personal evolution that illumines the pathways of a future humanity.
Patricia Sun is a solar light of consciousness whose wisdom rays cover the world. Everywhere I travel through out the earth, I find people whose lives have been enhanced and transformed by her luminous work.
