There was just too much evidence, from too many witnesses, pointing too many fingers at Ryan and his colleague for either defense team to have been able to portray it as a coincidence or a witch hunt or anything short of widespread corruption. And that's why we see this verdict.

When you come together with your other half, you immediately experience a sense of wholeness and completeness.

We really have to be willing to find out who we are instead of rebelling for the equal rights that we've been denied, that we do deserve.

We have to be willing to give up all the injustices of the past that did exist - and that do exist right now. When we become interested in liberation, we then become interested in that which transcends time.

In an evolutionary context, the goal of the spiritual life is not peace; it's perpetual development. Evolutionary enlightenment is about the ecstasy that compels us to create the future. And it's not a future that's going to unfold by itself while we go back to sleep. It's a future that we forge the hard way through direct, conscious, intentional engagement with the life-process itself.

Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to.

The executive branch maneuvered this result deftly.