“Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they’re finished. The person you are right now is as transient, as fleeting and as temporary as all the people you’re ever been. The one constant in our lives is change.” PeopleThinkingLifeHumansPersonsLife IsChangeHuman BeingsMistakePsychologyOur LivesProgressRight NowConstantFinishedTemporaryFleetingTransientWork In Progress Author:Daniel Gilbert
“You have to do your best to face every moment, because this moment will never come again. The moment that you are living right now is a very important opportunity to make your life vividly alive. If you want to live with spiritual security in the midst of constant change, you have to burn the flame of your life force in everything you do.” IfsWantImportantMomentsFacesSpiritualOpportunityForceChangeAliveSecurityRight NowConstantFlamesMidstLiving RightLiving Right Now Book:Each Moment Is the Universe: Zen and the Way of Being Time Source: Each Moment Is the Universe: Zen and the Way of Being Time
“The pirates are serving a purpose right now. They come from regions which have been completely ignored, and Westerners have tried to destroy these regions by their constant plundering of resources and by the illegal dumping of nuclear waste. The pirates really began in order to discourage these actions - initially. And then the business became lucrative.” Has BeensActionPurposeOrderRight NowWasteResourcesConstantNuclearRegionsIllegalServingIgnoredDiscouragingPirateWesternersNuclear Waste Author:K'naan
“I think what you see a lot of in American religion, even in areas of American Christianity that don't go all the way with Osteen to the idea that God wants you to have this big house and so on, the nature of American religion right now, the fact that it is so non-denominational and post-denominational, the most successful churches have to be run more like businesses than ever before. I think that just exposes Christians to a constant temptation to think about the ministry more as a business than they sometimes should.” ThinkingWayWantShouldIdeasSometimesFactsBigsRunningChristianHouseChurchChristianitySuccessfulRight NowAreasConstantTemptationPostsMinistryBig Houses Author:Ross Douthat