"So, is there an afterlife, and if so, what will it be like? I don't have a clue. But I am confident that the one who has buoyed us up in life will also buoy us up through death. We die into God. What more that means, I do not know. But that is all I need to know."

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Source : Marcus Borg (2012). “Speaking Christian: Recovering the lost meaning of Christian words”, p.107, SPCK

Marcus Borg

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“The fact is, the contest has always been invulnerability, and even when you win, you still lose.”
“Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.”
“He'd stopped trying to bring her back. She only came back when she felt like it anyway, in dreams and lies and broken-down deja-vu.”
“Yoga and Vipassana are the two most time tested ancient techniques for keeping the body, mind and spirit in harmony and in sync. There is no contradiction between yoga and vipassana. They are complementary to each other.”
“If you don't talk to your customers, how will you know how to talk to your customers?”
“A true Grandmaster is a person who starts the arts at a very young age and continues it until their body will no longer allows it. Then they still contribute mentally to the art.”
“No people without a government of their own can expect to be treated on the same level as people of independent sovereign states. It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else . . .”

Source : Kwame Nkrumah (1957). “Ghana: the autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah”
“Love is a gift we deliver when we would rather not.”

Source : Stephen L. Carter (2002). “The Emperor of Ocean Park”, Knopf

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