"If the world is crazy, maybe it needs a few sane people in the middle of it. Why do monks lock themselves up in monasteries? What's the good of solving your personal suffering if the solution keeps you isolated from everyone else's suffering?"

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Source : Tim Ward (2013). “What the Buddha Never Taught: A 'Behind the Robes" Account of Life in a Thai Forest Monastery”, p.47, Changemakers Books

Tim Ward

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“I have watched patients stand and gaze longingly toward the city they in all likelihood will never enter again. It means liberty and life; it seems so near, and yet heaven is not further from hell”

Source : Nellie Bly (2015). “The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)”, p.82, Golgotha Press
“Each day is a day that God has given us, and each moment of that day is in His hands.”
“One may sigh for all that one loses in giving up the old religion... but the new irreligion is the manlier, honester and simpler thing, and affords a better throry of life and a more solid basis for morality.”
“One of life's joys was to have friends who gave you reality checks...who would call you on your crap before it rose so high you drowned in it.”
“You are who you are. All you can do in this world is help others to be who they are and better themselves.”

Source : Twitter post from Jul 23, 2010
“A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.”
“They have this big book called the 'DSM-IV,' you know, that is supposedly written about crazy people, but I think it is a book that is written by crazy people!”
“We tear ourselves inside out for something the world may love, then base our worth on that.”

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