"The lamps are different, but the Light is the same. One matter, one energy, one Light, one Light-mind, endlessly emanating all things."

-- Rumi

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“Stories aren't about things. Stories are things. Stories aren't about actions. Stories are, unto themselves, actions.”

Source : "Don’t Write What You Know". www.theatlantic.com. August 2011.
“How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence.”
“Ah, the bitter, hopeless heart-hunger of godlessness none but an atheist can understand!”
“People who complain often say things like, 'I'm not being negative, I'm just being realistic.' Really? How is it anymore 'realistic' to focus on and talk about things that discourage us and make us feel bad, than to focus on and talk about the POSITIVE aspects of life that make us feel GOOD? Both area equally REALISTIC, but which you choose to dwell on has a very different impact on the quality of YOUR life.”
“I always thought I would have boys, but as a father, when your kids are born and they're healthy and happy, that's the most important thing.”

Source : "Survivor‘s Rob & Amber Mariano Welcome Daughter Carina Rose". Interview with Cynthia Wang, celebritybabies.people.com. December 20, 2010.
“I suppose we make kids the repository of our highest ideals because children are powerless. In that way we can have ideals and ignore them at the same time.”
“our deeds have even less substance than we ourselves.”
“We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.”

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