ron’s most recent Quotables

Any powerful idea is absolutely fascinating and absolutely useless until we choose to use it.

There's no disaster that can't become a blessing, and no blessing that can't become a disaster.

You are creatures of light. From light have you come, to light you shall go, and surrounding you through every step is the light of your infinite being.

By your choice dwell you now in the world which you have created. What you hold in your heart shall be true, and what you most admire, that shall you become.

Fear not, nor be dismayed at the appearance that is darkness, at the disguise that is evil, at the empty cloak that is death, for you have picked these for your challenges. They are the stones on which you choose to whet the keen edge of your spirit. Know that ever about you stands the reality of love, and each moment you have the power to transform your world by what you have learned.

You are life inventing form. No more can you die on sword or years than can you die on doorways through which you walk, one room into another. Every room gives its word for you to speak, every passage its song for you to sing

What a bleesed evening! How rarely are we given the chance to save the world from a new religion!

A major rule you forgot, Roles. Every game we play, we slip into a role, a game identity with which to play. We decide we're rescuer, victim, leader-with-all-the-answers, follower-without-a-clue, bright, brave, honorable, crafty, dull, helpless, just-trying-to-get-along, diabolical, easygoing, pitiable, earnest, careless, salt-of-the-earth, puppetmaster, comic, hero... we choose our role by whim and destiny, and we can change it anytime we want.

Guilt is the tension we feel to change our past, present or future for someone else's sake.

Some choices we live not once but a thousand times over, remembering for the rest of our lives.

Get this in mind early: We never grow up.

All we see of someone at any moment is a snapshot of their life, there in riches or poverty, in joy or despair. Snapshots don't show the million decisions that led to that moment.

Life does not require us to be consistent, cruel, patient, helpful, angry, rational, thoughtless, loving, rash, open-minded, neurotic, careful, rigid, tolerant, wasteful, rich, downtrodden, gentle, sick, considerate, funny, stupid, healthy, greedy, beautiful, lazy, responsive, foolish, sharing, presured, intimate, hedonistic, industrious, manipulative, insightful, capricious, wise, selfish, kind or sacrificed. Life does, however, require us to live with the consequences of our choices.

If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.

Our true country is the land of our values, and our conscience is the voice of its patriotism.

We don't have rights until we claim them.

We must honor our dragons, encourage them to be worthy destroyers, expect they'll strive to cut us down. It is their duty to ridicule us, it is their job to demean us, to force us if they can to stop being different! And when we walk our way no matter their fire and their fury, our dragons shrug when we're out of sight, return to their card-games philosophical: 'Ah well, we can't toast 'em all...

When we put up with any situation that we don't have to put up with, it's not because we're dumb. We put up with it because we want the lesson that only that situation can teach, and we want it more than freedom itself.

Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.

Good and evil are not what our parents told us, not what our church tells us, or our country, not what anybody tells us! All of us decide good and evil for ourselves, automatically, by choosing what we want to do!