"The facade is the ego. It is motivated by our seeking love. The only reward is frustration, as it is only by loving that one finds love."

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Lester Levenson

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“When someone comes under abuse or attack a characteristic response is to blame yourself, especially if you are locked into a relationship of being attacked regularly, and making apologies for your abuser. It actually affects Christians living in Islamic circumstances more, and one Palestinian Christian spoke about that problem of needing to defend Islam in order to protect yourself.”
“Recognize that you are a spiritual being who is part of a large cosmic family of spiritual beings. You have the power, strength, and talent to fulfill your own individual earthly destiny.”
“Whereas I think: Iâ€™m lying here in a haystack... The tiny space I occupy is so infinitesimal in comparison with the rest of space, which I donâ€™t occupy and which has no relation to me. And the period of time in which Iâ€™m fated to live is so insignificant beside the eternity in which I havenâ€™t existed and wonâ€™t exist... And yet in this atom, this mathematical point, blood is circulating, a brain is working, desiring something... What chaos! What a farce!”
“The most powerful purpose statements are crystal clear and single-minded in their focus.”
“Haldane was engaged in discussion with an eminent theologian. "What inference," asked the latter, "might one draw about the nature of God from a study of his works?" Haldane replied: "An inordinate fondness for beetles."”
“I listen to the gunfire we cannot hear, and begin this journey with the light of knowing the root of my own furious love.”

Source : Joy Harjo (1990). “In Mad Love and War”, p.25, Wesleyan University Press
“I was wiser at 30 than I am now. My judgment was better at 12. If you look out the windshield of a Hyundai or a Bentley, you see the same road.”
“I think it's very important to have a sense of balance in covering the war, but you don't have to be morally neutral about terrorism.”

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