"If we divide into two camps--even into violent and the nonviolent--and stand in one camp while attacking the other, the world will never have peace. We will always blame and condemn those we feel are responsible for wars and social injustice, without recognizing the degree of violence within ourselves. We must work on ourselves and also with those we condemn if we want to have a real impact."

-- Ayya Khema

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“I went to prison, I paid my bill.”
“Being constantly the hub of a network of potential interruptions provides the excitement and importance of crisis management. As well as the false sense of efficiency in multitasking, there is the false sense of urgency in multi-interrupt processing.”

Source : Michael Foley (2010). “The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy”, p.72, Simon and Schuster
“The scepticism which men affect towards their higher inspirations is often not an honest doubt, but a guilty negligence, and is a sign of narrow mind and defective wisdom.”

Source : James Martineau (1905). “Tides of the Spirit: Selections from the Writings of James Martineau”
“Your hope is the most beautiful and the saddest in the world.”

Source : Naomi Benaron (2012). “Running the Rift”, p.230, Oneworld Publications
“The single most remarkable (and revealing) fact of the Obama presidency may very well be the lack of a single prosecution of Wall Street executives for the massive fraud that precipitated the 2008 financial crisis.”
“It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?”
“You can go to the doctor a million times if you're feeling down, and get nowhere, but if you go for a run it makes you feel really good.”
“In proportion as the ardor of divine love brings you nearer to God, so will a larger concourse of saintly brethren flock to you. For, as the Lord says, 'A city set on a hill cannot be hid' (Mt. 5:14).”

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