Believers Are Each Other's Mirrors.

Perhaps It Took A Stranger To Make A Woman Like Her Speak Her Mind.

How We See God Is A Direct Reflection Of How We See Ourselves. If God Brings To Mind Mostly Fear And Blame, It Means There Is Too Much Fear And Blame Welled Inside Us. If We See God As Full Of Love And Compassion, So Are We.

Ways Of Loving From A Distance, Mating Without Even Touching-amor Platonicus! The Ladder Of Love One Is Expected To Climb Higher And Higher, Elating The Self And The Other. Plato Clearly Regards Any Actual Physical Contact As Corrupt And Ignoble Because He Thinks The True Goal Of Eros Is Beauty. Is There No Beauty In Sex? Not According To Plato. He Is After `more Sublime Pursuits.' But If You Ask Me, I Think Plato's Problem, Like Those Of Many Others, Was That He Never Got Splendidly Laid.

Stories Cannot Demolish Frontiers, But They Can Punch Holes In Our Mental Walls, And Through Those Holes We Can Get A Glimpse Of The Other And Sometimes Even Like What We See.

Cities Are Erected On Spiritual Columns. Like Giant Mirrors, They Reflect The Hearts Of Their Residents. If Those Hearts Darken And Lose Faith, Cities Will Lose Their Glamour.