The gift within the gift involved the opening of an inner eye that changed how I looked at life.

While you had the chance to live, did you become your true self?

A true calling is aimed at the genius qualities already set within each person.

As a culture, we turn away from people just when they are in times of change. That's when most communities used to embrace people, so the individual and the culture both benefited.

Emotions are the natural substances of the soul ... and when we think we can't handle the emotions, we lose the natural substances of the soul and begin looking for substances to replace the flow.

The gift within the gift involved the opening of an inner eye that changed how I looked at life.

There's an African proverb: 'When death finds you, may it find you alive.' Alive means living your own damned life, not the life that your parents wanted, or the life some cultural group or political party wanted, but the life that your own soul wants to live.