"I think people are tired of religion and how it divides and damages people. You can name it whatever you want, Islam or Christianity, but if you have a system in which God is distant and angry all the time, and you're trying to please him through the right disciplines, it isn't going to work for everyone."

-- William P. Young

#Tired Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Names Quotes

“The temple is a place of worship. Reverence is a supernal form of worship. It is the form of worship found in the celestial kingdom.”
“Every man should make his son or daughter learn some useful trade or profession, so that in these days of changing fortunes of being rich today and poor tomorrow they may have something tangible to fall back upon. This provision might save many persons from misery, who by some unexpected turn of fortune have lost all their means.”
“The only master that exists, the only one that's true and believable is your own conscience. To find it you have to stand in silence-alone and in silence-you have to stand on the naked earth, naked yourself and with nothing around you, as if you were already dead. You don't hear anything at first; the only thing you feel is terror, but then you begin to hear a voice, away in the background, far off; it's a calm voice, and maybe its banality gets on your nerves to begin with.”
“I have been baptized twice- once in water...once in flame.”
“When you are working on something yourself, it's very easy to get lost because you are convinced that people think in the same way - that they will get these unspoken things that are just floating in your head. Sometimes they do and sometimes they don't.”

Source : "Gypsy King: Gogol Bordello’s Eugene HГјtz". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2011.
“The philosophy to 'buy and hold' is a philosophy that I use to manage funds.”
“There's a manner of speaking you use while lawyering. A manner as affected and rife with artifice as your average campaign speech, with a similar fear of offending.”
“Unity does not mean sameness. It means oneness of purpose.”

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