"The life of "peace" is both an inner journey toward a disarmed heart and a public journey toward a disarmed world. This difficult but beautiful journey gives infinite meaning and fulfillment to life itself because our lives become a gift for the whole human race. With peace as the beginning, middle, and end of life, life makes sense."

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Source : John Dear (2009). “Living Peace: A Spirituality of Contemplation and Action”, p.223, Image

John Dear

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“When you plant a fertile meme in my mind you literally parasitize my brain, turning it into a vehicle for the meme's propagation in just the way that a virus may parasitize the genetic mechanism of a host cell.”
“The fact that we are living does not mean we are not sick.”
“The worst kind of arrogance is arrogance from ignorance.”
“Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.”
“I regard physics as that subset of magic that works fairly reliably. I regard magick, in the traditional sense, as a kind of physics that we strive to understand and render more reliable. So it all comes down to the same thing, a quest to understand and manipulate the world with a self-consistent and coherent theory .”

Source : "The Apophenion : A Chaos Magick Paradigm". Book by Peter J. Carroll, 2008.
“To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.”
“But tonight, the lion of contentment has placed a warm heavy paw on my chest.”

Source : Billy Collins (2011). “Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems”, p.49, Random House
“So many people arrange furniture in order to see what's going on outside. But why? The view isn't going anywhere.”

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