February 2012
16 posts
“A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a...”
– C.S. Lewis
She Was Not Built To Break
The news of Whitney Houston’s death on February 11th broke the hearts of music lovers around the world and left some people searching for meaning; I was one of them.
Whitney’s untimely passing reminded me of Michael Jackson and Judy Garland, stars whose talent was truly extraordinary, but whose pain could not be drowned by any amount of money or applause. The same goes for Whitney....
“I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will love the darkness for...”
– Og Mandino
It Doesn't Always Get Better
A couple of weeks ago, I spoke to LGBT students in New York City about self-esteem and developing a positive identity. The night before, I still wasn’t sure what I’d say, so I took to my Facebook page and asked, “If you could go back in time and visit with your younger self, what tips would you share with him?” Here is my favorite response—so full of wisdom it gave me...
“Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the...”
– Thomas J. Watson
Do Everything Lightly
It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. I was so preposterously serious in those days, such a humorless little prig. Lightly, lightly – it’s the best advice ever given me. When it comes to dying even. Nothing ponderous, or...
“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness of...”
– Carl Jung
“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to...”
– John Lennon
January 2012
41 posts
The Secret of Gnosis
But the Kingdom of God here is something that you can enter when you attain gnosis, which means knowledge. But it doesn’t mean intellectual knowledge. The Greeks had two words for knowledge. One is intellectual knowledge, like the knowledge of physics or something like that. But this gnosis is personal, like “I know that person, or do you know so and so.” So this gnosis is...
“To say that you believe in God, I think, it may or may not mean a whole lot. To...”
– Marianne Williamson
“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not...”
– Thomas Merton
I'm Not Asking You To Be A Rebel
It’s really sort of a sore spot because we live in what I call an age of conformity, where you have to travel with the herd. If you don’t travel with the herd and if you don’t say yes to that little man who’s leading the pack, you’re branded as a rebel. I am trying desperately—I hope—to be an individual. I think there’s quite a bit of difference. Actually, I can’t stand them, they drive me out...
“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”
– Epictetus
The Common Fate Of All
Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find.”
– Walt Whitman
Drawn Toward Me
Are you the new person drawn toward me? To begin with, take warning — I am surely far different from what you suppose; Do you suppose you will find in me your ideal? Do you think it so easy to have me become your lover? Do you think the friendship of me would be unalloy’d satisfaction? Do you think I am trusty and faithful? Do you see no further than this façade — this smooth and...
“The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.”
– Walt Whitman
dontyoucallyourhusbanddaddy asked: If I had the ability to, I would show your tumblr to every gay teenager contemplating suicide and hopefully it would help them on a path that would lead them away from suicide.
That Is Your Success
If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal—that is your success. All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless yourself. The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We easily come to doubt if they exist. We soon forget...
“And the night shall be filled with music,
And the cares that infest the day...”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But...”
– H. A. Overstreet
You Will Not Find Strangers
Remember: each human being, maybe the human being is Alexander the Great or just a beggar on the roadside, each human being is as fragile as anybody else. Deep down he is the same—the same consciousness, the same fear, the same death, the same lust, the same love: all exists the same. Accept yourself, allow your unconscious to be revealed to you. This is how each human being is. By knowing it, you...
“You will automatically begin forgiving, supporting, acknowledging, and...”
– Orin
