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#1

“Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise. ”
― Lewis Thomas

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#2

“Don't change your mind just because people are offended; change your mind if you're wrong.”
― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

tags: appeasers, change, determination, honesty, mind, offense, opinion, perseverance, right, truth, wrong

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#4

“A rumor is a social cancer: it is difficult to contain and it rots the brains of the masses. However, the real danger is that so many people find rumors enjoyable. That part causes the infection. And in such cases when a rumor is only partially made of truth, it is difficult to pinpoint exactly where the information may have gone wrong. It is passed on and on until some brave soul questions its validity; that brave soul refuses to bite the apple and let the apple eat him. Forced to start from scratch for the sake of purity and truth, that brave soul, figuratively speaking, fully amputates the information in order to protect his personal judgment. In other words, his ignorance is to be valued more than the lie believed to be true.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: cancer, deceit, gossip, introvert, libel, lie, loner, masses, propaganda, rumor, slander, social, truth

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#5

“There is such a thing as righteous judgment, but it seems that lately the word 'judgment' has become a curse word, period. The issue isn't whether or not we're insightful enough to avoid being judgmental, but whether or not we're secure enough to accept being judged. It is inevitable for every conscious human being to judge. It may spring from insight and experience and sincerity, and in such cases, it is quite beneficial on the receiving end.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: beneficial, human-nature, judgment, receive, righteous-judgment, secure

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#6

“Wise men are not pacifists; they are merely less likely to jump up and retaliate against their antagonizers. They know that needless antagonizers are virtually already insecure enough.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: antagonism, antagonistic, discernment, foolishness, insecure, insecurity, judgment, jump, manliness, masculinity, needless, pacifism, pacifist, patience, prudence, reason, retaliation, self-control, virtue, wisdom, wise, wise-man

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#7

“I think that I am too warm to negatively judge individuals, yet I am cold enough to negatively judge humanity.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: cold, discernment, humanity, judgment, negative, people, warm

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#8

“One of the first things we learn from our teachers is discernment: the ability to tell truth from fiction, to know when we have lost our center and how to find it again. Discernment is also one of the last things we learn, when we feel our paths diverge and we must separate from our mentors in order to stay true to ourselves.”
― Anne Hill, The Baby and the Bathwater

tags: discernment, spiritual-growth, spirituality, teachers

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#9

“Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding.”
― Corrie ten Boom

tags: discernment

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#10

“When the urgent crowds out the important, people urgently accomplish nothing of value.”
― Orrin Woodward, LIFE

tags: discernment, priorities

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#11

“The word of wisdom is missing,” he continued. “We need the gift of discernment again in our pulpits. It is not ability to predict that we need, but the anointed eye, the power of spiritual penetration and interpretation, the ability to appraise the religious scene as viewed from God’s position, and to tell us what is actually going on”
― a.w. tozer

tags: discernment, spiritual-leadership

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#12

“We all become well-disguised mirror image of anything that we fight too long or too directly. That which we oppose determines the energy and frames the questions after a while. Most frontal attacks on evil just produce another kind of evil in yourself, along with a very inflated self-image to boot.”
― Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

tags: discernment, reaction, self-righteousness

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#13

“Life is worth more than man will ever know. Each of our choices open up the possibility of a different world. Every time we wake up, the universe puts itself in our hands. So many paths. So many choices. Our discernment is the only way to tell which one leads to happiness.”
― Thierry Cohen, Still with Me

tags: choices, discernment, happiness, life, paths, possibilities, universe

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#14

“Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict -- alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.”
― Dorothy Thompson

tags: conflict, life, peace

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#15

“I have a self-made quote: Celebrate diversity, practice acceptance and may we all choose peaceful options to conflict.”
― Donzella Michele Malone

tags: acceptance, celebrate, conflict, diversity, inspirational, peace, philosophical

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#16

“What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Thomas Paine's Rights of Man: A Biography

tags: class, conflict, government, history, politics, power

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#17

“Katy was neither a Methodist nor a Masochist. She was a goddess and the silence of goddesses is genuinely golden. None of your superficial plating. A solid, twenty-two-carat silence all the way through. The Olympian's trap is kept shut, not by an act of willed discretion, but because there's really nothing to say. Goddesses are all of one piece. There's no internal conflict in them. Whereas the lives of people like you and me are one long argument. Desires on one side, woodpeckers on the other. Never a moment of real silence.”
― Aldous Huxley, The Genius and the Goddess

tags: conflict, huxley, perfection, silence

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#18

“Every period of human development has had its own particular type of human conflict—its own variety of problem that, apparently, could be settled only by force. And each time, frustratingly enough, force never really settled the problem. Instead, it persisted through a series of conflicts, then vanished of itself—what's the expression—ah, yes, 'not with a bang, but a whimper,' as the economic and social environment changed. And then, new problems, and a new series of wars.”
― Isaac Asimov, I, Robot

tags: conflict, history

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#19

“Once upon a time there were two countries, at war with each other. In order to make peace after many years of conflict, they decided to build a bridge across the ocean.

But because they never learned each other’s language properly, they could never agree on the details, so the two halves of the bridge they started to build never met.

To this day the bridge extends far into the ocean from both sides, and simply ends half way, miles in the wrong direction from the meeting point.

And the two countries are still at war.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

tags: agreement, babylon, borders, bridge, communication, communications, conflict, connection, crossing, difference, differences, different, distance, distant, language, near, oeean, tongue, tower-of-babel, war

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#20

“Organizations like the UN do a lot of good, but there are certain basic realities they never seem to grasp ...Maybe the most important truth that eludes these organizations is that it's insulting when outsiders come in and tell a traumatized people what it will take for them to heal.
You cannot go to another country and make a plan for it. The cultural context is so different from what you know that you will not understand much of what you see. I would never come to the US and claim to understand what's going on, even in the African American culture. People who have lived through a terrible conflict may be hungry and desperate, but they are not stupid. They often have very good ideas about how peace can evolve, and they need to be asked.
That includes women. Most especially women ...
To outsiders like the UN, these soldiers were a problem to be managed. But they were our children.”
― Leymah Gbowee, Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War

tags: conflict, culture, liberia, outsiders, war, women

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#21

“We don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note. Only notes that are different can harmonize. The same is true with people.”
― Steve Goodier

tags: agreement, conflict, conflict-resolution, differences, different-perspective, diversity, getting-along, harmony, opinions

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#22

“The tree of revenge yields no fruit.”
― Lili Wilkinson, The Not Quite Perfect Boyfriend

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#23

“People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about the need to separate church and state; it's about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

tags: america, big-bang, big-bang-theory, church-and-state, creation, creationism, dinosaurs, education, evolution, first-amendment, freedom, freedom-of-religion, intelligent-design, letters, literacy, new-jersey, new-york-times, noah-s-ark, religion, scientific-literacy, teachers, teaching

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#24

“Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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#25

“Christianity preaches the infinite worth of that which is seemingly worthless and the infinite worthlessness of that which is seemingly so valued.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer

tags: christianity

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#26

“Nothing that we despise in other men is inherently absent from ourselves. We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or don't do, and more in light of what they suffer.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer

tags: compassion, hypocrisy

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#27

“We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.....We must not.....assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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#28

“God loves human beings. God loves the world. Not an ideal human, but human beings as they are; not an ideal world, but the real world. What we find repulsive in their opposition to God, what we shrink back from with pain and hostility, namely, real human beings, the real world, this is for God the ground of unfathomable love.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, A Year with Dietrich Bonhoeffer

tags: christian

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#29

“The Church is the Church only when it exists for others...not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live for Christ, to exist for others.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison

tags: church, service

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#30

“The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become - because He made us. He invented us. He invented all the different people that you and I were intended to be. . .It is when I turn to Christ, when I give up myself to His personality, that I first begin to have a real personality of my own.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: new-beginnings

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#31

“I see Jesus in every human being. I say to myself, this is hungry Jesus, I must feed him. This is sick Jesus. This one has leprosy or gangrene; I must wash him and tend to him. I serve becuase I love Jesus.”
― Mother Teresa

tags: jesus, kind, kindness, love, serve, service

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