"A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse."

-- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

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“Jesus was saying that you can't have a larger life with restricted attitudes.”
“When we come to the end of self we come to the beginning of Christ.”
“That the mechanisms of mass-production, which feed the demand for endlessly growing consumption in one generation can radically effect the possible futures for subsequent generations. Furthermore, to undo the effects of one generation's actions is not temporally relative. What is done, cannot be undone in the same timeframe. Like the factories themselves, the effects linger, they haunt us long after their final breath.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“The warrior for the True, the Right, Fights in Love's name; The love that lures thee from that fight Lures thee to shame: That love which lifts the heart, yet leaves The spirit free,- That love, or none, is fit for one Man-shaped like thee.”

Source : Aubrey Thomas DE VERE (1855). “Poems”, p.120
“Whenever I see grace, Iâ€™m moved.”
“I'm not God, but I'm working within my own means as an artist and a person, and I possibly have more power than God does, in whatever form he has, if he exists, because I can work without the overarching ambition of wanting to rule over everything. I can work just for the heck of it.”

Source : Interview with John O’Connor, www.believermag.com. December 2004.
“Natura nihil agit frustra [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputible axiom in philosophy. There are no grotesques in nature; not any thing framed to fill up empty cantons, and unncecessary spaces.”
“See the world as it truly is, small and blue, beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats.”

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