"Actually, every living functioning animal or insect has a life force ... a Spirit. Why do you think some religions prohibit stepping on something lik... the lowly ant?"Buddhism teaches: We Are One With Everything."Think about that. How can that be if we are not all in some way connected. One of the Noble Truths of Buddhism is: No thing, Including Ourselves, Has A Separate Existence."Pretty much every religion has some sort of belief in the Eternal. Why do you think that's true?'Sure it could be. Someone opened the gate and he stumbled through. The gate slammed behind him, but he knew it would only be a matter of minutes before it was broken through, or burned. There was no one left to defend and protect him.“Vladimir!” a female voice cried out. His wife raced down the precarious steps as though she was running on flat ground, mindless of the fact that she could fall and break a limb.“Elsa!” he gasped, falling and picking himself up again. “We must flee! Radu will be here in moments.” A. He said he didn't know if he could keep his hands off me a second longer, and I begged him to kiss me. He told me hewouldn’t do a thing if I kept talking. He teasingly called me a bad girl. With my lips I soundlessly begged for a kiss, andthis time he gave it to me - full of passionate hunger and desire. I let out a small whimper."Hush, now," he said. "That's bad. And you know what I do to bad little witches." I shook my head, and he acted surprised."Don't you? Well, well, well...how about. Alexa is an open, caring person who likes to laugh and is not scarred totake control. I am probably the only person who has seen that side ofAlex but I realized tonight that it was Alexa and not Alex all thoseyears"I listen to Katie's words and begin to think about them. She is right.Alex was kind of a nobody who hid the shadows but Alexa is out there.Was it the chance to hide behind the dress and make up that allowed thatside of my personality to come out? It has to be. As I sit.