"If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?"

-- Virginia Woolf

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“An act of meditation is actually an act of faith--of faith in your spirit, in your own potential. Faith is the basis of meditation. Not of faith in something outside you--a metaphysical buddha, an unattainable ideal, or someone else's words. The faith is in yourself, in your own 'buddha nature.' You too can be a buddha, an awakened being that lives and responds in a wise, creative, and compassionate way.”
“The world is speaking to you every day, you just don't know how to listen.”
“A world based on machine images is a world filled with boundaries. In a machine, every piece knows its place.”
“Armstrong has no place in cycling.”
“Go forward until the last round is fired and the last drop of gas is expended...then go forward on foot!”
“I think my biggest focus for myself is learning how to continue to get through the trauma that my father has caused in my life.”
“Know for a certainty that if men understood how terrible is even one solitary sin, they would rather be cast into a heated furnace, and there remain, living both in soul and body, than to support such a sight. And if the sea were all fire they would cast themselves therein and never leave it, if they were certain of meeting the sin on doing so.”

Source : "The Spiritual Doctrine of St. Catherine of Genoa".
“None so little enjoy themselves, and are such burdens to themselves, as those who have nothing to do. Only the active have the true relish of life.”

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