"Energy always flows either toward hope, community, love, generosity, mutual recognition, and spiritual aliveness or it flows toward despair, cynicism, fear that there is not enough, paranoia about the intentions of others, and a desire to control."

-- Michael Lerner

#Spiritual Quotes #Fear Quotes #Generosity Quotes

“The abortionist I worked for, he's a very greedy man, a selfish man.”
“Of all the items on the menu, soup is that which exacts the most delicate perfection and the strictest attention.”
“Not having to own a car has made me realize what a waste of time the automobile is.”
“Their preservation depends upon a sentiment. As sentiment never yet annihilated a paying industry, we cannot hope to stay, wholly, the ax and saw of the lumberman. But popular opinion, combined with action, if directed intelligently towards the setting apart of some one section of the noble redwood forests... will, I believe, save for our present delight and for that of the generations who come after us, at least one grand forest of the Sequoia sempervirens such as the world cannot show elsewhere, such as a thousand years cannot reproduce.”
“No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful or greedy. Unless you let him.”
“One often makes music to supplement one's world.”
“Right now, I have some big dreams. But at the same time, if I get annoyed and harassed by the media, I'll just quit. I don't care. We're set for life. I have quite a temper.”
“When I went to college I knew what I wanted to study, and what career I wanted to pursue. I wanted to study psychology in order to become a clinical psychologist.”

Source : "Buddhist howls". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. December 28, 2012.

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