Those of you who are scattered,
simplify your worrying lives. There is one righteousness: Water the fruit trees and don't water the thorns. Be generous to what nurtures the spirit and God's luminous reason-light. Don't honor what causes dysentery and knotted-up tumors.
- Rumi
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"...you have two choices: you can cut your throat and forget about it, or you can keep fighting. If you're going to keep fighting, then you've got to fight to win, and to survive. So what you do is, you find yourself a corner that you can fight really well from, and that you like, and that you fit in--and you give it the works, have a good time. That way you can keep your sanity, you