"I've also learned that you don't always get to pick the people with whom you travel the journey. You sometimes may think you do, but don't be deceived. And the corollary of that - and this was my real lesson - is that you start to realize that you can love even the people you don't like and must love and help everyone."

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Source : Lama Surya Das (2009). “Awakening the Buddha Within: Eight Steps to Enlightenment”, p.157, Harmony

Surya Das

#Real Quotes #Journey Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“[G]lobal warming, that manufactured monomania.”
“I don't possess these thoughts I have --- they possess me. I don't possess these feelings I have --- They obsess me.”
“I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place.”
“The end was surely near. The Nazis killed you only when you were naked, because they knew, psychologically, that naked people never resist.”
“There's no such thing as a sure thing. That's why they call it gambling.”
“Sodomy is in the Bible, to be read in churches. I wouldn't rule it out of Mr. Bruce's act if he cares to comment on it”
“Thanks to feminism, women can now acquire status in two ways: through marriage or their own achievements. Cure cancer or marry the man who does, either way society will applaud. Unless he marries into the British royal family, it doesn't work that way for men. Wives shed no glory on their husbands. Having tea with Nancy Reagan is an honor; having tea with Denis Thatcher is a joke.”
“The fight for the future of Texas is just beginning”

Source : "Texas Senate Approves Strict Abortion Measure" by John Schwartz, www.nytimes.com. July 13, 2013.

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