When I went to college in the 1970s, the Women's Liberation movement was all the buzz.
I have a gruff side. This is not exactly news... At the same time, anyone who wants to judge me for this can walk a mile in my moccasins. And then we'll talk.
People who attend support groups who have been diagnosed with a life-challenging illness live on average twice as long after diagnosis as people who don't.
I know I'm not a great writer. I'm an extremely gifted oral communicator, but when it comes to writing, I'm just a beginner.
In God, there is no lack and no recession.
The human race is evolving to the realization that what is happening on the level of consciousness both precedes and determines what happens in the world.
People don't live in Los Angeles because we are tied to the same old, same old. We live in Los Angeles because of the intoxicating energy of new beginnings that permeate our city.
Certainly there is such a thing as chemical depression, and for that, obviously, there are issues that psychotherapists are much more expert at speaking to, but I think there is a low-grade depression that actually prevails in our society. And most of us feel it.
By my mid-20s, I was a total mess.
Children are not children. They are just younger people.
Spirit is impervious to illness.
Revolutions are not easy.
Spiritual principles do not change, but we do.
Any man who holds a woman back is not a man a woman can afford to be with.
In 2004, Kucinich was the only presidential candidate who warned that a war in Iraq would be completely disastrous. I remember how mocked he was when he predicted hand-to-hand combat in Baghdad. I remember Candy Crowley, and other reporters as well, treating his views on the impending war as ridiculous, out there, almost insane.
The world cannot evolve if girls refuse to become women.
While overeating would be seen by some as an indulgence of self, it is in fact a profound rejection of self. It is a moment of self-betrayal and self-punishment, and anything but a commitment to one's own well-being.
America won't be saved because one or 10 people stand up. It will be saved because millions of us stand up.
Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. I honor my grief.
An educated child earns more later in life, knows how to keep their own children from dying, produces more food, is less likely to get AIDS, and in the case of boys, is less likely to engage in armed civil conflict.
