"As our world becomes smaller, through a growing common culture, the true test of community will be our tolerance for our most profound differences and love for the most challenging among us."

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Source : Wayne Teasdale (2010). “A Monk in the World: Cultivating a Spiritual Life”, p.13, New World Library

Wayne Teasdale

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“As a child I loved ghost stories.”
“If you have more money than brains, you should focus on outbound marketing, If you have more brains than money, you should focus on inbound marketing.”
“The passions are the voice of the body.”
“I had to accept that I was an alcoholic, that was the main thing. I think you've got to. But I try not say that I'm an alcoholic. I prefer to say that it's a disease I've got.”

Source : "I'm Gazza - and I am an alcoholic", www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2001.
“The real function of the artist is to give fresh vision to their own generation.”
“What is a great love of books? It is something like a personal introduction to the great and good men of all past times. Books, it is true, are silent as you see them on their shelves; but, silent as they are, when I enter a library I feel as if almost the dead were present, and I know if I put questions to these books they will answer me with all the faithfulness and fulness which has been left in them by the great men who have left the books with us.”
“I was like, wait a minute. When I hear my sisters' names, I want to have a joyful feeling in my heart about it.”

Source : "Alfre Woodard Hosts Oscar’s Sistahs Soiree" by Jenelle Riley, variety.com. February 19, 2015.
“Speed now illuminates reality whereas light once gave objects of the world their shape.”

Source : Paul Virilio, Bertrand Richard (2012). “The Administration of Fear”, p.41, MIT Press

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