Good Clean Reads

“Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there’s all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.” -Arthur Gordon

My contractor, Robert showed up to build the shelves we had planned out yesterday. He...

 

“The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.” -Susan Sontag

The word hormone comes from the Greek word ( ὁρμή ) which means “impetus”. The chemistry that we often walk around taking for granted is actually the impetus for most, if not all, of our daily functioning. Let me elaborate- our hormones control our growth and development, our metabolism,...

“Love is an act of endless forgiveness.” 
– Peter Ustinov

 

A lot of people struggle with the idea of resurrection. The literal religious telling of a man overcoming death, of his coming back amongst the living for 40 days to teach the most esoteric and divine lessons of his life is hard to grasp for many. It is the tale that divides the believers and non-believers most passionately. In fact,...

“Jealousy… is a mental cancer.” –B.C. Forbes

Jealousy is a sneaky emotion that catches me off guard. I usually don’t see it coming and often, I must reflect quickly to find where my feelings of warmth and love turn bitter with envy. I believe that joy and pleasure shared doubles it, and usually feel gratified by the successes of my friends. When it comes over me I have learned to look for the...

What more can you say about a life well lived than it was delicious? Pavarotti was quoted in his biography saying: “One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.”

Many people have trouble talking about sexual topics, including me. Thinking about how to recognize and overcome some of the following obstacles might help you develop an ease and vocabulary for having meaningful sexual conversations in your relationship or with your kids.

“Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer sex raises some pretty good questions” -Woody Allen

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“The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.“ ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fear is the most basic of emotional responses. It is an experience that universally defines life, in most all its forms, from tiny insect to full grown men. Animals of all sizes are wired first through their fears. Humans are perhaps the only species that has the potential...

 

“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” Robert Frost

We see the world changing around us every day, whether it is just through a quick glance of seasons emerging and falling away, or in the height of a child, or the decline of an old neighbor. Life is a testimonial to impermanence. Even as we bear witness to the brevity of most any circumstance, we grieve...

“We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.” Mother Teresa

The most important experiences that I have now are the ones in which I am able to find in dynamic stillness....