"The great Mediator asks for our repentanceÂ notÂ because we must â€˜repayâ€™ him in exchange for his paying our debt to justice, but because repentance initiates a developmental process that, with the Saviorâ€™s help, leads us along the path to a saintly character"

-- Bruce C. Hafen

#Character Quotes #Justice Quotes #Debt Quotes

“I think the most important practice is to be authentic with our human selves.”
“It seems everyone's so worried about getting hurt that they forget about letting love happen.”
“I hope I don't get a roundhouse kick from Chuck Norris.”
“For feeling, not events, is to me the essence of history.”
“Learn to fail or fail to learn”

Source : Tal Ben-Shahar (2014). “Choose the Life You Want: The Mindful Way to Happiness”, p.130, The Experiment
“That in a civil war there is continuous fighting, based on grievences that are forever changing.”
“The ultimate expression of meditation comes when we can feel all the pains of the world, experience them with mindfulness and equanimity so they dissolve into energy, and then recolor that energy and radiate it out as unconditional love, moment by moment, through every pore of our being.”
“Lithium tweaks many mood-altering chemicals in the brain, and its effects are complicated. Most interesting, lithium seems to reset the bodyâ€™s circadian rhythm, its inner clock. In normal people, ambient conditions, especially the sun, dictate their humors and determine when they are tuckered out for the day. Theyâ€™re on a twenty-four-hour cycle. Bipolar people run on cycles independent of the sun. And run and run.”

Source : Sam Kean (2011). “The Disappearing Spoon...and other true tales from the Periodic Table”, p.252, Random House

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