"Prayer if it is real is an acknowledgment of our finitude, our need, our openness to be changed, our readiness to be surprised, yes, astonished by the "beams of love.""

-- Douglas V. Steere

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“There was a famous Zen master whom people would seek out to become enlightened. He was strict and would occupy people with things having nothing to do with seeking enlightenment. You see, that is the only way to achieve enlightenment; by not focusing on achieving it. Then, one day it will just come to you.”
“I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts.”
“Giving material goods is one form of generosity, but one can extend an attitude of generosity into all one's behavior. Being kind, attentive, and honest in dealing with others, offering praise where it is due, giving comfort and advice where they are needed, and simply sharing one's time with someone - all these are forms of generosity, and they do not require any particular level of material wealth.”
“Intellectuals who live in Hungary, or who wish to work or lecture there, are extremely circumspect in their criticism.”

Source : "The Frightening Hungarian Crackdown". www.newyorker.com. January 8, 2013.
“Honestly, I feel like I spent the last 10 years just trying to work, just get my hands on the best material I could. I'd like to say that it was quite calculated and genius, my ability to take one step forward and two steps back.”
“Two hundred years ago the first liberal economist, Adam Smith, warned businessmen that they could absorb only a certain amount of rigidity. In the easy days after World War II... wage rises could be financed out of inflationary price increases.”
“Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didnâ€™t you? Iâ€™m part of you? Close, close, close! Iâ€™m the reason why itâ€™s no go? Why things are what they are?”
“Our biggest national security threat is the environmental destruction of our planet and the arms race with ourselves.”

Source : "John Bolton CPAC Speech Lambasts Obama". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 6, 2014.

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