"One of the tools I like a lot is the Just Like Me practice. It's one of the empathy practices where we put ourselves in the other's shoes. Rather than get caught up in the difference in the ideologies, we actually come back to the fundamental idea: just like me, this person on the opposite political spectrum wants to be happy, wants to be safe, wants to thrive, wants to be healthy, wants to find peace of mind."

-- Mark Coleman

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“Too much art was no art at all. Like candy instead of bread!”
“I'm a health-food junkie, so all of my food is a splurge, money-wise!”
“I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.”
“Christmas is telling you that you could never get to heaven on your own. God had to come to you.”
“To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.”
“The democracy which shows up in the United States and in England is not an ideal democracy, because the will of the people is under the pressure of property, which is in the hands of the wealthy capitalists.”

Source : "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, 2004.
“Whenever we encounter a human being in such a way that we feel absolutely certain of the infinity of that person's worth and the eternity of his or her life, that is Easter.”

Source : Eugen Drewermann (1994). “Dying We Live: Meditations for Lent and Easter”
“I believe that the United States has a moral obligation to stand up for those citizens of the world who cannot stand up for themselves, and I am proud to have authored the bill signed into law today that continues to put significant pressure on the brutal Burmese military junta.”

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