"Healing is embracing what is most feared; healing is opening what has been closed, softening what has hardened into obstruction, healing is learning to trust life."

-- Jeanne Achterberg

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“A field marshal who issued orders to the armed forces but had no idea of the results they would have in practice.”
“Religions are easy to invent. Most traditional religions have little or nothing to do with reality, are dependent on obfuscation, interpretation, guilt, and unreasoning faith...”
“I do not hold that we should rearm in order to fight. I hold that we should rearm in order to parley.”
“Prayer alone will overcome the gigantic difficulties which confront the workers in every field.”

Source : John Raleigh Mott (1905). “The Evangelization of the World in this Generation”
“We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.”

Source : 'Thoughts on Various Subjects' (1706)
“The real tragedy of our postcolonial world is not that the majority of people had no say in whether or not they wanted this new world; rather, it is that the majority have not been given the tools to negotiate this new world.”
“You throw thorns, falling in my silence they become flowers.”
“I saw a documentary on how ships are kept together. Riveting!”

Source : "Edinburgh fringe's 10 funniest jokes revealed" by Mark Brown, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2012.

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