"We are on the verge of listening"

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Source : ""We are on the verge of listening"". Interview with B.C. Pires, caribbeanreviewofbooks.com.

Earl Lovelace

#Listening Quotes

“Most assuredly Zen is a religion, but it is a religion without scripture, without doctrine or dogma and without sin.”

Source : Howard Fast (2011). “The Art of Zen Meditation”, p.8, Open Road Media
“At times I think I actually hate Hollywood. I have many acquaintances there, but few friends...”
“The United States is the only advanced country that permits the pharmaceutical industry to charge exactly what the market will bear, whatever it wants.”
“Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war.”
“I often think it's comical How Nature always does contrive That every boy and every gal That's born into the world alive Is either a little Liberal Or else a little Conservative!”
“Sometimes, one gesture comprises an entire drama, the accent of one word ruins an entire existence, and the indifference of one glance kills the happiest passion.”
“Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss?”
“What Grandfather Burton did for me was to write a sacred family record, the small plates of Burton, or, if you will, an inspirational family record. Much of what we now regard as scripture was not anything more or less than men writing of their own spiritual experiences for the benefit of their posterity. These scriptures are family records. Therefore, as a people we ought to write of our own lives and our own experiences to form a sacred record for our descendants. We must provide for them the same uplifting, faith-promoting strength that the ancient scriptures now give us.”

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