"As soon as you say, "are you feeling X because I ..." Then the Jackal starts to salivate because he can educate the person that he's the cause of his pain."

-- Marshall B. Rosenberg

#Pain Quotes #Communication Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“And that is ... how they are. So terribly physically all over one another. They pour themselves one over the other like so much melted butter over parsnips. They catch each other under the chin, with a tender caress of the hand, and they smile with sunny melting tenderness into each other's face.”
“I remember being asked when I was in high school what do I want to do when I grow up and the answer is so indicative - I would like to have been a successful playwright.”

Source : "Mitch Hurwitz on the Creative Process, Casting Jason Bateman, and Loose Seals". Interview with John Sellers, www.vulture.com. October 22, 2013.
“After all, acknowledging unfairness then calls decent people forth to correct those injustices. And since most persons are at their core, decent folks, the need to ignore evidence of injustice is powerful: To do otherwise would force whites to either push for change (which they would perceive as against their interests) or live consciously as hypocrites who speak of freedom and opportunity but perpetuate a system of inequality.”

Source : Tim Wise (2008). “Speaking Treason Fluently: Anti-Racist Reflections From an Angry White Male”, p.61, Soft Skull Press
“The singing of the songs of Zion, though imperfectly, with the inspiration of God, will touch the hearts of the honest more effectively than if sung well without the Spirit of God.”
“Awareness means the capacity to see a coffeepot and hear the birds sing in one's own way and not the way one was taught.”

Source : Joan Halifax, Eric Berne (1967). “The Fruitful Darkness: A Journey Through Buddhist Practice and Tribal Wisdom”, Grove Pr
“Music is a means of rapid transportation.”
“The definition of terrorism is killing civilians with the intent of changing their political affiliation.”
“People will always try to find themselves and their place in the world.”

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