"For at the center of all spiritual traditions is the beacon of a truly radical proposal: Open your heart to everybody. Everybody."

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Source : Marc Ian Barasch (2010). “The Compassionate Life: Walking the Path of Kindness”, p.11, ReadHowYouWant.com

Marc Ian Barasch

#Spiritual Quotes #Heart Quotes #Tradition Quotes

“I think at some point every actor has practiced their acceptance speech while they're having a shower. It's fun.”
“Whatsoever causes no annoyance when it is present, causes only a groundless pain in the expectation. Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not. It is nothing, then, either to the living or to the dead, for with the living it is not and the dead exist no longer.”
“I'm just a girl, With a dream that got the best of me, In a world that believes fame is everything.”
“Tell Robb that I'm going to command the Night's Watch and keep him safe, so he might as well take up needlework with the girls and have Mikken melt down his sword for horseshoes. - Jon Snow”
“It ain't no use putting up your umbrella till it rains.”
“I do not think that a man's rise to power is necessarily the climax of his life or that his loss of office should be equated with his fall.”

Source : Isaac Deutscher (2003). “The Prophet Armed: Trotsky, 1879-1921”, p.7, Verso
“You are like a candle. Imagine you are sending light out all around you. All your words, thoughts and actions are going in many directions. If you say something kind, your kind words go in many directions, and you yourself go with them. We are ...transforming and continuing in a different form at every moment.”
“Remember that you are young, beautiful, individual and unique and that is worth everything in this world.”

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