"If the minds of living beings are impure, their land is also impure, but if their minds are pure, so is their land.Â There are not two lands, pure or impure in themselves.Â The difference lies solely in the good or evil of our minds.Â It is the same with a BuddhaÂ and an ordinary being.Â While deluded, one is calledÂ an ordinary being, but when enlightened, one is called a Buddha.Â This is similar to a tarnished mirror that will shine like a jewel when polished."

-- Nichiren

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“When you try to help people become a better person, you're going to have to find out what's really going in their world.”
“I have always believed that there is a need for life-affirming films.”
“So many people think that social studies and weird lessons in social studies, teaching kids in America are bad, is it the result of Common Core? And it's not. It's not. Common Core does not deal with social studies. It's basically writing and math.”
“Docs are more exhausting because of the physical labor that's required. Feature filmmaking is more exhausting because of politics and the bullshit. You get to the point of rolling film and until you lock picture it's one political game after another. They're both struggles for survival. They are two different worlds.”

Source : Source: www.indiewire.com
“In my case, I was covering politics in Texas as a newspaper man in the 1960's.”
“Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.”

Source : "Dwayne Johnson Talks Race to Witch Mountain". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. August 4, 2009.
“Your life, all of your life, is your path to awakening. By resisting or not dealing with its challenges, you stay asleep to Reality. Pay attention to what life is trying to reveal to you. Say yes to its fierce, ruthless, and loving grace.”
“A scientist can hardly meet with anything more undesirable than to have the foundations give way just as the work is finished. I was put in this position by a letter from Mr. Bertrand Russell when the work was nearly through the press.”

Source : Note in the appendix of "Grundlagen der Arithmetik" (Vol. 2), after Frege had received a letter of Bertrand Russell in which Russell had explained his discovery of, what is now known as, Russell's paradox, 1903.

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