It’s all in the reflexes.

Show me a man who has no interest in his own good, and I’ll show you a man who is not in touch with his own humanity.”~R. Alan Woods [2013]

I’d rather be on the ground than underTo feel the heavy rain and the thunder.

When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.

We are built to desire free will and to choose our own destiny. It’s not about being right or wrong; it’s about the celebration of life, your free will. The human spirit must constantly be...

His red eyes swung in my direction. Without a second glance, he released the dead man’s body. It hit the ground with a loud thump, but I couldn’t bring myself to look at him. He...

All men are born firstly with the instinct to protect themselves. But few grow to really love themselves, and even fewer learn to love their neighbor as themselves.

When I felt ill and was on the way to becoming a burden to the other men, I noticed a growing chill in their attitude toward me. For people like us, living day and night...

Everyone judges constantly: positively judging one person is the same as negatively judging everyone else; it is to say that that person is superior in some sense.

Let you limitation fuel your determination to work on your strengths.

Hope can keep you alive in the midst of the turbulence.

Life is uncertain, we can only hope.

I’m a survivor. And like the moon, I have a feeling it would take a truly spectacular event to keep me from taking my place in the scheme of things, waxing, waning, and eclipsing notwithstanding.

She was alone and destitute in a world of pointless carnage. By an eight-hundred-year-old Sepahrdic tradition she ad been since the age of twelve and a half “bogeret l’reshut nafsha”–an adult wit authority over her...

For many years eagerly thought by your enemy to destroying your life, it’s all one second of mastery for you to save your life from his deadly plans, for you to survive.

The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the survival instinct acts sooner or later to eliminate the individual and thereby fails...