"Searching all directions with one's awareness, one finds no one dearer than oneself. In the same way, others are fiercely dear to themselves. So one should not hurt others if one loves oneself."

-- Thanissaro Bhikkhu

#Hurt Quotes #Way Quotes #Awareness Quotes

“The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.”
“If someone is calling for democracy, he is calling for an end of a dictatorship and if this is the will of the people, this could also mean overthrowing the regime.”
“And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and bashful, I neither heeded what was said or practised, but just what belonged to my loyal duty and my own honest reputation.”
“In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.”
“Charity wins awards and applause, but joining the poor gets you killed.Â People do not get crucified for charity.Â People are crucified for living out a love that disrupts the social order, that calls forth a new world.Â People are not crucified for helping poor people.Â People are crucified for joining them.”

Source : Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.86, ReadHowYouWant.com
“That's the result of the black cloud on baseball, .. Until it's rid of steroids, people are naturally going to think that.”
“You know how some trees have those ear mushrooms that just grow off, and you could live on one of those mushrooms and not realize that there was stacks and stacks of others? That's how I describe music scenes in New York. That's one of the trippiest things about living here - just how many parallel universes there are that you can be completely unaware of.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Interestingly, songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now they're getting shorter.”

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