"The authors of the gospels were unlettered and ignorant men and the teachings of Jesus have come to us mutilated, misstated and unintelligible."

-- Thomas Jefferson

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“The soul of all is one soul and the truth is one truth, under whatever religion it is hidden.”
“I literally feel like books saved my life. I found these people. Me reading Camus and Kafka, all of the tortured teenager stuff of someone who's falling in love with books. These people, these writers had the questions. They may not have had the answers, but they're not afraid to look at the questions head on. It was just life-changing for me. Yeah, books, honestly, I can't even tell you. I feel saved by books; I feel like they let me be who I was and find the world I wanted to be in.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The student ends up ***** after time with the teacher, hanging on her every word, and forgetting that this is about him or her, the student, not the teacher.”
“We all think there is a formula, (but) as long as we love our children, that's really the only solid thing I know that works across the board.”
“I know stealing a foot is weird. But, hello, living in a house where a foot is available to be stolen is weird.”

Source : "Fictional character: Claire Fisher". TV Series "Six Feet Under" ("An Open Book", 2001), www.imdb.com. (2001–2005).
“The Buddha would not have liked people to call themselves Buddhist. To him that would have been a fundamental error because there are no fixed identities. He would have thought that someone calling himself a Buddhist has too much invested in calling himself a Buddhist.”
“I remember in my very first fitting, costume designer Patricia Norris gave me a garment with these intricate stitches - stitches over stitches, because it had been repaired so many times. Once I put it on, she told me that it belonged to an actual slave woman. My heart just stopped. Each one of the stitches had a story, you know. Just recognizing this period I was going to be dancing with was a "come to Jesus" moment.”
“Only when I focus on the holiness and glory of God am I able to see myself with accuracy.”

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