"To be a spiritual warrior means to develop a special kind of courage, one that is innately intelligent, gentle, and fearless. Spiritual warriors can still be frightened, but even so they are courageous enough to taste suffering, to relate clearly to their fundamental fear, and to draw out without evasion the lessons from difficulties."

Source : Sogyal Rinpoche (2009). “The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller: Revised and Updated Edition”, p.41, Harper Collins

Sogyal Rinpoche

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“Even something as complex as the eye has appeared several times; for example, in the squid, the vertebrates, and the arthropods. It's bad enough accounting for the origin of such things once, but the thought of producing them several times according to the modern synthetic theory makes my head swim”
“Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation.”
“As a defense lawyer, he refused to condemn his clients. Everyone else in the system-the cops, the prosecutors, the juries and judges-would take care of that; they didn't need his help.”

Source : Scott Turow (2006). “Limitations”, p.56, Macmillan
“The more we have the less we own.”
“Sensible policies on global warming should weight the costs of slowing climate change against the benefits of slower climate change. Ironically, recent policy initiatives, such as the Kyoto Protocol of 1997, have been introduced without any attempt to link the emissions controls with the benefits of the lower emissions.”

Source : William D. Nordhaus, Joseph Boyer (2003). “Warming the World: Economic Models of Global Warming”, p.69, MIT Press
“Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It's exactly the same.”
“Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That's just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.”
“But none of us wants to be average. That we are so is a melancholy fact borne in upon us in middle life, and we do not always relish it.”

Source : Margaret Benson (1908). “The Venture of Rational Faih”

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