"Compassion is an alternate perception"

-- Mary Caroline Richards

#Compassion Quotes #Perception Quotes

“I can't think of a more philosophical time in a person's life than when they are children. It's the one time when ideas are really beautiful and amazing and all-encompassing. They are life.”
“Do you know what happens when an Arabian woman dances? She does not dance: she protests, she loves, she cries, she makes love, she dreams, she goes away from her reality, to her own world, where love is really meant and she does not want to come back, because that is her reality.”
“Be great in act, as you have been in thought.”
“Are you living in a computer simulation?”

Source : Nick Bostrom, Milan M. Cirkovic (2011). “Global Catastrophic Risks”, p.141, Oxford University Press
“Today with the Internet, I search for film and video archives online. It's an ever-growing moveable visual feast of delicacies from all around the world.”
“In Ethiopia, the problem is that you don't know who's who. You don't know who to trust. You don't have any freedom.”

Source : Source: www.sbnation.com
“We are forced to choose, for the processes we have initiated in our lifetime cannot continue in the lifetime of our children. Whatever we do either creates the framework for continuing the supreme adventure of life and consciousness on this planet or sets the stage for its termination. The choice before us is urgent and important: it can neither be postponed nor ignored.”

Source : Ervin Laszlo (1994). “The Choice: Evolution Or Extinction? : a Thinking Person's Guide to Global Issues”, Tarcher
“Since the only way you are going to find solutions to painful problems is by thinking deeply about them - i.e., reflecting - if you can develop a knee-jerk reaction to pain that is to reflect rather than to fight or flee, it will lead to your rapid learning/evolving.”

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