"The main things are the plain things, and the plain things are the main things."

-- Alistair Begg

“You know, there's something heartsick about parties like this. Look at us. We're all pretending to be smart, as if intelligence were the cure for our anguish.”
“Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief.”
“But the admiration for Jackson was by no means confined to his own soldiers and to his own section.”
“Let us remember the poor, and not forget kindness to strangers; above all, let us love God with all our soul, and might, and strength, and our neighbour as ourselves.”
“I liked the bit about quarter to eleven.”
“Every single day we sit down to eat, breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and at our table we have food that was planted, picked, or harvested by a farm worker. Why is it that the people who do the most sacred work in our nation are the most oppressed, the most exploited?”
“We each need to make peace with our own memories. We have all done things that make us flinch.”

Source : Lama Surya Das (2010). “Awakening To The Sacred”, p.104, Random House
“If leadership is the act of going beyond what is ... it begins by going beyond what is within ourselves.”

Source : Kevin Cashman, Jack Forem (2003). “Awakening the Leader Within: A Story of Transformation”, p.280, John Wiley & Sons

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