"Mounting an expedition to actualize a Compassionate Commonwealth of all peoples...is the great spiritual challenge of our time."

-- Sam Keen

#Spiritual Quotes #Peace Quotes #Challenges Quotes

“I'm the one by the backdoor - I am not the one in the middle of the party.”
“The mind is divided, like a rider on an elephant, and the riderâ€™s job is to serve the elephant. The rider is our conscious reasoning-the stream of words and images of which we are fully aware. The elephant is the other 99 percent of mental processes-the ones that occur outside of awareness but that actually govern most of our behavior.”
“One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to concentrate on one's own.”

Source : Iris Murdoch (1977). “Henry and Cato”, Viking Pr
“And everything that comes out of my mouth is gonna be repeated in two-sentence-long bites for the next years of my life. Certain words travel far and wide.”
“For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.”
“Don't immanentize the eschaton!”
“Whenever I was with a woman, I always sort of want another one. So there was always another one. I can't explain this”
“For the way loneliness is worse when you return to it after a reprieveâ€”like the soulâ€™s version of putting on a wet bathing suit, clammy and miserable.”

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