"Healing comes when the individual remembers his or her identityâ€”the purpose chosen in the world of ancestral wisdomâ€”and reconnects with that world of Spirit."

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Source : Malidoma Patrice Somé (1999). “The healing wisdom of Africa: finding life purpose through nature, ritual, and community”, J P Tarcher

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#Healing Quotes #Health Quotes #Identity Quotes

“The number one thing I look for in a man is integrity. A man who does what he says he's going to do.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Please don't fall into the trap of believing that I am terribly dogmatical about [the goto statement]. I have the uncomfortable feeling that others are making a religion out of it, as if the conceptual problems of programming could be solved by a single trick, by a simple form of coding discipline!”

Source : Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe (2011). “Being George Washington: The Indispensable Man, As You've Never Seen Him”, p.181, Simon and Schuster
“And I say that Your Highnesses ought not to consent that any foreigner does business or sets foot here, except Christian Catholics since this was the end and the beginning of the enterprise, that it should be for the enhancement and glory of the Christian religion, nor should anyone who is not a good Christian come to these parts. Here may be found the first suggestion of the exclusive colonial policy that Spain and other nations followed.”
“Let me lay my cards on the table. If I were to give an award for the single best idea anyone ever had, I'd give it to Darwin, ahead of even Newton or Einstein and everyone else. In a single stroke, the idea of evolution by natural selection unifies the realm of life, meaning and purpose with the realm of space and time, cause and effect, mechanism and physical law. It is not just a wonderful idea. It is a dangerous idea.”

Source : "Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life". Book by Daniel Dennett, 1995.
“I believe that artists should be part of the culture. I think that my work clearly bears that out.”
“Though we may not desire to detect fraud, we must not, on that account, endeavor to be insensible of it, for, as cunning is a crime, so is duplicity a fault, and if men dread knaves, they also despise fools.”
“An award does not change the quality of a book.”

Source : Caldecott Medal acceptance speech for The Polar Express, polarexpress.com. 1986.
“The race problem in the United States is the type of unpleasant problem which we would rather do without but which refuses to be buried.”

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