"You say that you are too busy to meditate. Do you have time to breathe? Meditation is your breath. Why do you have time to breathe but not to meditate? Breathing is something vital to peoples lives. If you see that Dhamma practice is vital to your life, then you will feel that breathing and practising the Dhamma are equally important."

-- Ajahn Chah

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“It is my hypothesis that the fundamental source of conflict in this new [post-Cold-War] world will not be primarily ideological or primarily economic. The great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural. Nation states will remain the most powerful actors in world affairs, but the principal conflicts of global politics will occur between nations and groups of different civilizations. The clash of civilizations will dominate global politics. The fault lines between civilizations will be the battle lines of the future.”

Source : "The Clash of Civilizations?". Foreign Affairs, www.foreignaffairs.com. Summer 1993.
“Labour to grow better under all your afflictions, lest your afflictions grow worse, lest God mingle them with more darkness, bitterness and terror.”
“Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.”
“Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal.”

Source : "Dictionary of Quotations (Classical)" edited by Thomas Benfield Harbottle, (p. 495), 1906.
“I'm not an optimist. I'm hopeful.”
“He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish.”
“Hope is the deep orientation of the human soul that can be held at the darkest times.”
“He didn't just kiss, he claimed ownership. Took her mouth with urgency, as if his life depended on his kissing her.”

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