"The elephant is never won by anger; nor must that man who would reclaim a lion take him by the teeth."

-- John Dryden

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“Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.”
“Honesty and unpopular opinions are the toughest sell in a country with an irony-deficiency.”
“Art class was like a religious ceremony to me. I would wash my hands carefully before touching paper or pencils. The instruments of work were sacred objects to me.”
“It seems to me that the desire to make art produces an ongoing experience of longing, a restlessness sometimes, but not inevitably, played out romantically, or sexually. Always there seems something ahead, the next poem or story, visible, at least, apprehensible, but unreachable. To perceive it at all is to be haunted by it; some sound, some tone, becomes a torment â€” the poem embodying that sound seems to exist somewhere already finished. Itâ€™s like a lighthouse, except that, as one swims towards it, it backs away.”
“Temple. One other word is equal in importance to a Latter-day Saint. Home. Put the words holy temple and home together, and you have described the house of the Lord!”
“I was very restless, but finally I found my way.”
“Coming to know the hidden and forgotten Mother and the marvelous wisdom of the sacred feminine as revealed from every side and angle by the different mystical traditions is not luxury; it is, I believe, a necessity for our survival as a species.”

Source : Andrew Harvey (2012). “Radical Passion: Sacred Love and Wisdom in Action”, p.187, North Atlantic Books
“There's nothing humane about the flesh of animals who have had one or two or even three improvements made in their singularly rotten lives on today's factory farms.”

Source : "Let’s Face It: There Is No Such Thing as Humane Meat" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 26, 2013.

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