"In loving things and the being in them man should rather draw things up to the human level than reduce humanity to their measure."

-- Jacques Maritain

#Men Quotes #Humanity Quotes #Levels Quotes

“Dead men would start and move toward me to learn of love.”
“Well, the most important thing about Islam is that we have to differentiate between two kinds of Islam. The first one is the institution of Islam... second, the culture of Islam.”
“The fight training was very extensive, a lot of stretching, a lot of coordination of balance exercises.”
“By definition, memoir demands a certain degree of introspection and self-disclosure: In order to fully engage a reader, the narrator has to make herself known, has to allow her own self-awareness to inform the events she describes.”
“The last time I used? What do you mean? I used my toaster this morning.”
“The basis of the spiritual path is the development in ourselves of what is truly balanced, natural, and meaningful.”

Source : Tarthang Tulku (1977). “Gesture of Balance: A Guide to Awareness, Self-healing, and Meditation”, Dharma Pub
“The big fish run the show. I'm a middle fish, but there are small fish that are poisonous.”
“Man is perhaps half mind and half matter in the same way as the polyp is half plant and half animal. The strangest creatures are always found on the border lines of species.”

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