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Michael Lerner

"Ultimately, one of the best ways to take care of our souls is to build a society that supports rather than undermines our highest moral and spiritual intuitions and inclinations. Yet, building that society can never be divided from the daily practices through which we live out our ethical and spiritual lives, both in the way we treat others around us, and in the way we nourish the God within us."

Source : Michael Lerner (1996). “The Politics of Meaning: Restoring Hope and Possibility in an Age of Cynicism”, Perseus Books

Michael Lerner

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“And even when you canâ€™t get seem to get your act together, your identity is secure and completely intact. Because in Christ, who you are matters infinitely more than anything you do or cannot do.”
“To lead happy, contented, peaceful lives, remember all the good times you share with others, forget all the good you do for others.”
“The difficult child is the child who is unhappy. He is at war with himself; and in consequence, he is at war with the world.”

Source : Alexander Sutherland Neill (1969). “Summerhill: a radical appoach to education”
“Each time it was like a stray bit of glass pressed into the softness of her heart, grinding, grinding, oh so silently until she no longer noticed when she bled.”
“Temperance, in the nobler sense, does not mean a subdued and imperfect energy; it does not mean a stopping short in any good thing, as in love and in faith; but it means the power which governs the most intense energy, and prevents its acting in way but as it ought.”
“But it is not for the perfect vase or the polished gem to choose their owners.”
“As you sometimes swear by him that made you, I conclude your sentiments do not correspond with his, in that which is the basis of the doctrine you both agree in: and this makes it impossible to imagine whence this congruity between you arises. "To grant that there is a supreme intelligence who rules the world and has established laws to regulate the actions of his creatures; and still to assert that man, in a state of nature, may be considered as perfectly free from all restraints of law and government, appears to a common understanding altogether irreconcilable.”
“Democracy is not just voting for your leaders; it's really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues.”

Source : The Frontline Interview, www.pbs.org. June 15, 1995.

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