The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.
04177 – Freedom vs. Tyranny
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03964 – The Secret of Happiness
The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
03890 – Avoiding Self-Righteousness
We are all hypocrites to some degree — passionately promoting ideas we have not ourselves fully lived, taking others to task for frailties and failures not that dissimilar from our own. Knowing this, we should all be more gentle, more hopeful, more merciful with one...
02656 – The Final Secret
The final secret, I think, is this: that the words "You shall love the Lord your God" become in the end less a command than a promise.
02105 – Patience, Please!
Adopt the pace of nature: Her secret is patience.
01608 – Here is My Secret
Now--here is my secret: I tell it to you with an openness of heart that I doubt I shall ever achieve again so I pray that you are in a quiet room as you hear these words. My secret is that I need God--that I am sick and can no longer make it alone. I need God to help...
01488 – God is Like a Mother
Our situation of "knowing God" is thus similar to that of a baby being held by its mother. In her hands, the baby does not "understand" the mother but rather experiences being known by the mother. In the same way, the revelation of God we have received from God is not...
01444 – Focusing Your Energy
The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
01359 – Telling Human Secrets
I not only have my secrets, I am my secrets. Our secrets are human secrets, and our trusting each other enough to share them with each other has much to do with the secret of what it means to be human. from Telling Secrets
01346 – Pain is Part of our Humanity
My own pain in life has taught me that the first step to healing is not a step away from the pain but a step toward it. When brokenness is, in fact, just as intimate a part of our being as our chosenness and our blessedness, we have to dare to overcome our fear and...