"At least since the first petals of the counterculture bloomed across Europe and the United States in the 1960s, it has been fashionable to affirm that all religions are beautiful and all are true...This is a lovely sentiment but it is dangerous, disrespectful, and untrue."

-- Stephen Prothero

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“It's not an act. I love it. It's totally original. People go, 'What's going on with this guy? Why does he sound so weird? What is going on in his brain. I don't know. Just one day I suddenly woke up with a new brain.”
“If the wind and rain could play guitar, they would sound a lot like Doc Watson”
“The glance embroiders in joy, knits in pain, and sews in boredom. When indifferent, the eye takes stills, when interested, movies. Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.”
“Nobody got anywhere in this world by simply being content.”
“Anybody who was a politician at one stage - when they were at the "I'd like to be a train driver" stage of their lives - must also have thought: "I'd like to make the world a better place if possible." So, I think that's why most politicians go into it. They don't want to take over the world and most go into it for good reasons and then, presumably, are beset by endless things stopping them from following their natural inclination to do the right thing.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“If Zen is approached with the usual mental attitude, it will seem quite incomprehensible. Our average Western intellectuality would consider its paradoxical language simply as a play upon words. Its full significance is revealed only when we approach it in a different manner, making our minds available to the new processes of inner perception which it suggests.”

Source : Robert Linssen (1958). “Living Zen”
“I know,â€ said Peter. â€œPerhaps better than anyone. But you canâ€™t stay a child forever. To choose to speak into Echoâ€™s Well is to choose illusion. To choose to avoid the responsibilities of being an adult. The real trickâ€”the real choiceâ€”is to keep the best of the child you were, without forgetting when you grow up. â€œIt is the best of both worlds, Jack. Being a child is to believe in magic everywhereâ€¦ â€œâ€¦but even Peter Pan had to grow up one day.”
“Honor and good faith and justice are equally due from this country toward the weak as toward the strong.”

Source : Henry Clay (1863). “Life and times”, p.28

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