"The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed."

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Barbara Brown Taylor

#Self Quotes #World Quotes #Tradition Quotes

“You have been the last dream of my soul.”
“My guilty pleasure is Simon & Garfunkel. I'm embarrassed about it. They're dorky.”

Source : Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk
“[About reading Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, age 14, in the back seat of his parents' sedan. I almost threw up. I got physically ill when I learned that ospreys and peregrine falcons weren't raising chicks because of what people were spraying on bugs at their farms and lawns. This was the first time I learned that humans could impact the environment with chemicals. [That a corporation would create a product that didn't operate as advertised] was shocking in a way we weren't inured to.”
“Meanwhile, their [evolutionists] unproven theories will continue to be accepted by the learned and the illiterate alike as absolute truth, and will be defended with a frantic intolerance that has a parallel only in the bigotry of the darkest Middle Ages. If one does not accept evolution as an infallible dogma, implicitly and without question, one is regarded as an unenlightened ignoramus or is merely ignored as an obscurantist or a naive, uncritical fundamentalist.”
“You never know what you're going to get as a receiver.”
“Medicine has its limitations, Life Force has none.”
“What seems certain is that Pythagoras developed the idea of mathematical logic... He realized that numbers exist independently of the tangible world and therefore their study was untainted by inaccuracies of perception. This meant he could discover truths which were independent of opinion of prejudice and which were more absolute then any previous knowledge.”

Source : "Fermat's Last Theorem". Book by Simon Singh, 1997.
“Don't ever go to war. Even if you win, the battle is never over inside you.”

Source : Jack Gantos (2011). “Dead End in Norvelt”, p.87, Macmillan

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