"If you think there's an important difference between being a Christian or a Jew or a Hindu or a Muslim or a Buddhist, then you're making a division between your heart, what you love with, and the way you act in the world."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Coleman Barks

#Christian Quotes #Buddhist Quotes #Heart Quotes

“Radical conservatives want to police bedrooms.”
“There were times I used to go to parties when I was, you know, like 15-, 16-years-old, and I'd always bring my guitar, and all my friends would be like, sing one of the Smokey songs. And everything I sang was his music, and I could sound just like him.”

Source : Interview with Chris Rolls, www.tv.com. June 20, 2006.
“We should not measure our space-faring era by where footprints have been laid.... We should measure our era by how many people take no notice at all. A legacy rises to become culture only when its elements are so common that they no longer attract comment.”
“If anyone wants a hole in the ground, nuclear explosives can make big holes”

Source : Edward Teller, Allen Brown, Jr. (1975). “The Legacy of Hiroshima”, Greenwood Press
“Fear and love were sometimes the same thing both necessary unavoidable. Now she understood that it was okay to bleed if you know how to heal.”

Source : Susan Wiggs (2001). “The you I never knew”
“To vest a few fallible men â€” prosecutors, judges, jurors â€” with vast powers of literary or artistic censorship, to convert them into what J. S. Mill called a "moral police," is to make them despotic arbiters of literary products. If one day they ban mediocre books as obscene, another day they may do likewise to a work of genius.”
“We hear the ambient noise of children singing. We hear lions and tigers roar. Hyenas laugh. Some jungle bird or howler monkey declares its existence, screeching a maniac's gibberish. Our entire world, always doing battle against the silence and obscurity of death.”
“A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?”

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