Almost All Our Suffering Is The Product

The Same Comparison Holds True Within The United States Itself: Southern And Midwestern States, Characterized By The Highest Levels Of Religious Literalism, Are Especially Plagued By [high Rates Of Homicide, Abortion, Teen Pregnancy, Sexually Transmitted Disease, And Infant Mortality], While The Comparatively Secular States Of The Northeast Conform To European Standards.

To Say That I Would Have Done Otherwise Had I Wanted To Is Simply To Say That I Would Have Lived In A Different Universe Had I Been In A Different Universe.

How We Pay Attention To The Present Moment...determin Es The Character Of Our Experience And...the Quality Of Our Lives.

You Almost Never Get The Pleasure Of Seeing That You Won The Argument In Real Time. People Just Don't Like To Publicly Change Their Minds. They Change Their Minds In Private.

Tell A Devout Christian That His Wife Is Cheating On Him, Or That Frozen Yogurt Can Make A Man Invisible, And He Is Likely To Require As Much Evidence As Anyone Else, And To Be Persuaded Only To The Extent That You Give It. Tell Him That The Book He Keeps By His Bed Was Written By An Invisible Deity Who Will Punish Him With Fire For Eternity If He Fails To Accept Its Every Incredible Claim About The Universe, And He Seems To Require No Evidence What So Ever.