"Our job this day is to become part of the answer to the world's immense and protracted suffering rather than continuing our ancient task of being part of the difficulty."

-- Hugh Prather

#Jobs Quotes #Compassion Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“I'd pay more just to hear proper English and have everyone keep their clothes on”
“How many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb? The plum tree in the garden!”
“Liberalism is to freedom as anarchism is to anarchy.”
“If you do anything above party, the true hearted ones of all parties sympathize with you.”
“There are some people who still don't understand. But I know by the end of my fulfillment they will.”
“I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.”
“The marriage-based society...discourages all the competing alternatives to marriage. You can't have a marriage-based society and a social value of sexual freedom. They don't work together”
“The wise woman patterns her life on the theory and practice of modern banking. She never gives her love, but only lends it on the best security and at the highest rate of interest.”

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