"Terrorism is a horrible thing that is the great threat to civilization on our planet."

-- Walter Isaacson

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“Who you are, in truth, who everyone is, is whole and perfect and beautiful. And if that can be recognized, then it is possible that self-torture can stop!”
“I grew up in Beaufort, South Carolina, in a six-room farmhouse with a couple of leaning posts to keep it from fallin'. I came up in a time when men were men.”
“When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck.”
“I learned that our deepest need is to overcome our aloneness and our separateness. We seek to escape from separateness in various ways. We seek conformity, mistaking it for union. This is a soul-crushing way to exist. Or we seek union through orgiastic states - drugs, alcoholism, overwork - or through creative activities. But the ultimate escape from separateness is through interpersonal union.”

Source : Joseph Jaworski (2011). “Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership”, p.46, Berrett-Koehler Publishers
“I won't eat anything I can't spell or wouldn't tread in.”

Source : "This much I know: Len Goodman". Interview With Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. March 31, 2012.
“Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain.”
“A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.”
“Men who pride themselves on their ancestry are like the potato plant, the most part of which is under ground.”

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