"We must come together in ways that respect the solitude of the soul that avoid the unconscious violence we do when we try to save each other that evoke our capacity to hold another life without dishonoring its mystery never trying to coerce the other into meeting our own needs."

-- Parker J. Palmer

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“[Speaking to a group of wealthy New Yorkers] A million years ago, the cave man, without tools, with small brain, and with nothing but the strength of his body, managed to feed his wife and children, so that through him the race survived. You on the other hand, armed with all the modern means of production, multiplying the productive capacity of the cave man a million times â€” you are incompetents and muddlers, you are unable to secure to millions even the paltry amount of bread that would sustain their physical life. You have mismanaged the world, and it shall be taken from you.Â ”
“Liberals often don't see the problems, and conservatives don't see the promise, of government.”
“A marriage, even one that goes awry, generates claims and needs that persist like an afterglow long after the emotional fire is burned out.”
“It's been predictable, in the sense of 'expect the unexpected'.”
“If we had to tolerate in others all that we permit in ourselves, life would become completely unbearable.”
“Pets require feeding, training, affection and exercise, but in return they offer unconditional love and companionship.”
“Because modern Protestants have not only forgotten what Rome was, what she is, and what she will for ever be; the most irreconcilable and powerful enemy of the Gospel of Christ; but they consider her almost as a branch of the church whose corner stone is Christ.”
“The world is a marvelous system of wiggles.”

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