"For the dharma to become firsthand knowledge-to feel the â€˜ouchâ€™ of it-you have to live intimately with it, hold it up to scrutiny, and let it hold you up to scrutiny. In the end, the ball is always thrown back to you: â€˜Be a lamp unto yourself,â€™ says the Buddha. In other words, you must ultimately find the way on your own, by putting your ideas of the truth to the test. Your questions light the way."

-- Larry Rosenberg

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“For the world is broken, sundered, busted down the middle, self ripped from self and man pasted back together as mythical monster, half angel, half beast, but no man...Some day a man will walk into my office as a ghost or beast or ghost-beast and walk out as a man, which is to say sovereign wanderer, lordly exile, worker and waiter and watcher.”
“He ran as he'd never run before, with neither hope nor despair. He ran because the world was divided into opposites and his side had already been chosen for him, his only choice being whether or not to play his part with heart and courage. He ran because fate had placed him in a position of responsibility and he had accepted the burden. He ran because his self-respect required it. He ran because he loved his friends and this was the only thing he could do to end the madness that was killing and maiming them.”
“I manage to hide in my movies.”
“If artists and poets are unhappy, it is after all because happiness does not interest them.”
“Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe.”
“Align yourself with people that you can learn from, people who want more out of life, people who are stretching and searching and seeking some higher ground in life.”
“Nature, time and patience are three great physicians.”
“As a woman I can't go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else.”

Source : Quoted in Hannah Josephson, Jeannette Rankin: First Lady in Congress (1974)

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