Through conscious beings the universe has generated self-awareness. This can be no trivial detail, no minor byproduct of mindless, purposeless forces….

There's nothing there — get rid of that!.

The parent who loves his child dearly but asks for nothing in return might qualify as a saint, but he will not qualify as a parent. For a child who c….

If the desert is holy, it is because it is a forgotten place that allows us to remember the sacred. Perhaps that is why every pilgrimage to the deser….

Most people, when directly confronted by evidence that they are wrong, do not change their point of view or course of action but justify it even more….

Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce the mental armor of self-justification..

There's so much to learn and so much of it not worth learning..

Life's about changing. Nothing ever stays the same..

Everything we see is inside our own heads..

Gifts make friends and friends make gifts..

There's no other like Leo..

[E]mpathy - not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance - is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry..

He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings..

Go ahead and do what you're doing..

I purge compulsively. I'm constantly shedding things..

I cannot live with someone who can't live without me..

The ingenuity of self-deception is inexhaustible..

the more you live the more things reflect all around you!!!!.

The internet is like a surround system, a landscape at its most benign, a closed system of surveillance and self-surveillance at its more sinister. S….

I hope that death contains less than this..

I used to be very self-conscious. I used to wish I was pretty. My cousin Georgia always taught me that if you smile, people will like you. Sometimes ….