Growth of consciousness does not depend on the might of the intellect but on the conviction of the heart.

But you are involved in the world, and your actions have consequences for other people, and if you don't recognize that, then that's the supreme kind of cruelty. Everyone shares someone else's fate to some extent.

God can and does use anything God chooses to get our attention. Who's to say the hawk wasn't sent as an agent of grace to catch my wandering attention and quiet what Buddhists might call my __onkey mind,_ which is more often than not swinging wildly from branch to branch on intellectual and emotional trees. On the way back down the hiking trail after my encounter with the hawk in Big Sky, I stopped thinking and started looking and listening. That's when I realized winter was turning into spring before me. Change was happening. Creation, and perhaps the Creator, was speaking. I just needed to be outside to hear the voice.

It's not at all hard to understand a person it's only hard to listen without bias.

Theoretically speaking a good reader should also be a good learner, whatever the century and the place!

Armon stared into the wild darkness of his opponent and saw a reflection of his own fall.