"Buddhism is not concerned just with private destiny, but with the lives and consciousness of all beingsAny attempt to understand Buddhism apart from its social dimension is fundamentally a mistake. Until Western Buddhists understand this, their embrace of Buddhism will not help very much in the efforts to bring about meaningful and positive social change, or even in their struggle to transform their ego."

-- Sulak Sivaraksa

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“Most of my influences are turn-of-the-century.”
“Ambition is frequently the only refuge which life has left to the denied or mortified affections. We chide at the grasping eye, the daring wing, the soul that seems to thirst for sovereignty only, and know not that the flight of this ambitious bird has been from a bosom or home that is filled with ashes.”

Source : William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.74
“Handing over a bank note is enough to make a bicycle belong to me, but my entire life is needed to realize this possession.”
“If we get you in the early years of your life and we fill your head with all of the Catholic stories, then it's very hard for you to stop being Catholic. Catholics are Catholics because they like being Catholic.”

Source : "Father Andrew Greeley Extended Interview". Interview With Judy Valente, www.pbs.org. May 10, 2002.
“The boy I just kissed is talking to my father. The boy I want to kiss again is waiting for my mother to serve pancakes. I must fight the urge to freak.”
“The earlier, more analytic impulse was to use very rational but kind of absurd techniques or tendenciesâ€”mapping, charting, and architectureâ€”to try and make sense of who I was in my time and space and political environment. But thereâ€™s only so much truth to a theoretical understanding of something.”
“Sexually progressive cultures gave us literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the Dark Ages and the Holocaust.”
“The voice is an instrument that you really must take time to develop. It's like a good red wine Give it time.”

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