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#1

“By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship

tags: grace, judging

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#2

“None of us has ever seen a motive. Therefore, we don't know we can't do anything more than suspect what inspires the action of another. For this good and valid reason, we're told not to judge.

Tragedy is that our attention centers on what people are not, rather than on what they are and who they might become.”
― Brennan Manning, The Wisdom of Tenderness: What Happens When God's Fierce Mercy Transforms Our Lives – A Stirring Invitation to Accept God's Unfathomable Love

tags: judging

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#3

“Being kind to someone, only to look kind to others, defeats the purpose of being kind.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: being-right, compassion, cruelty, fake, fake-kindness, games, guessing, judging, kindness, lack-of-compassion, misunderstanding, no-communication, not-hearing, not-listening, not-understanding, piety, speculation

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#4

“When you see people only as personalities, rather than souls with life missions to fulfill, you forever limit the growth and possibilities of what God has in store for another person.”
― Shannon Alder

tags: connections, future, god-s-plan, growth, hope, judgement, judging, life-mission, life-purpose, links, nondisclosure, personalities, personality, possibilities, speculation, vision

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#5

“The next time you want to withhold your help, or your love, or your support for another for whatever the reason, ask yourself a simple question: do the reasons you want to withhold it reflect more on them or on you? And which reasons do you want defining you forevermore?”
― Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

tags: being-judgmental, charity, giving, helping-others, judging, love, serving, serving-others, support

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#6

“This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.”
― Walt Whitman

tags: activism, service

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#7

“Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

tags: change

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#8

“I have learned that to be with those I like is enough”
― Walt Whitman

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#9

“Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.”
― Walt Whitman

tags: carpe-diem, live-in-the-moment

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#10

“Do anything, but let it produce joy.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

tags: carpe-diem, enjoy-life, live-life

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#11

“I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best. ”
― Walt Whitman

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#12

“I like the scientific spirit—the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine—it always keeps the way beyond open—always gives life, thought, affection, the whole man, a chance to try over again after a mistake—after a wrong guess.”
― Walt Whitman, Walt Whitman's Camden Conversations

tags: affection, certainty, doubt, evidence, guess, humble, ideas, life, mistake, science, scientific, skepticism, surrender, thought

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#13

“And your very flesh shall be a great poem.”
― Walt Whitman

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#14

“The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with. To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes. ”
― Pema Chodron

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#15

“Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.”
― Isaac Asimov, Roving Mind

tags: belief, bible, bitter, childish, childish-beliefs, guide, guides, home, ignorance, ignore, imagine, invade, leader, leaders, library, resentment, school, science, shame, the-bible, thought, uneducated, unimaginative, unthinking, writing

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#17

“Your suffering needs to be respected. Don't try to ignore the hurt, because it is real. Just let the hurt soften you instead of hardening you. Let the hurt open you instead of closing you. Let the hurt send you looking for those who will accept you instead of hiding from those who reject you.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

tags: acceptance, hiding, hurt, ignore, looking, rejection, respect, softness, suffering

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#18

“If you ignore the mountain, doesn't mean mountain will ignore you too..”
― Tanveer Mazhar

tags: boys, girls-and-boys, ignore, mountain-climbing, mountaineering, mountains, mountaintop

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#19

“Until pains are endured, depressions surmounted, mockeries ignored and goliaths conquered, destiny might not be achieved”
― Ikechukwu Izuakor

tags: achieve, conquer, destiny, goliath, ignore, mockery, pain

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#20

“Great leaders catch and correct problems while they’re still small and able to be managed without a lot of hassle. If ignored too long, small problems will morph into much bigger issues that will require more time and effort and at a high cost, causing a great deal of disruption and stress.”
― Beth Ramsay, #Networking is people looking for people looking for people

tags: cost, disruption, effort, hassle, ignore, management, stress, time

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#21

“You can ignore your heart and mind, but it will always find its way home.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: dreams, ignore, journey, needs, path, wants

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#22

“...here's what I've learned - people will hurt you, but you don't have to respond - not every mean comment or cruel act deserves to be noticed ...”
― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

tags: bullying, comments, cruelty, hurt, ignore, response, wisdom, wise-words

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#23

“A child of five could understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: funny, simplicity

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#24

“I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin." The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern."

[From the Preface]”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

tags: administration, big-business, bureaucracy, corporations, corporatocracy, dictatorship, efficiency, evil, hell, management, police-state

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#25

“The fact is that the modern implementation of the prison planet has far surpassed even Orwell’s 1984 and the only difference between our society and those fictionalized by Huxley, Orwell and others, is that the advertising techniques used to package the propaganda are a little more sophisticated on the surface.
Yet just a quick glance behind the curtain reveals that the age old tactics of manipulation of fear and manufactured consensus are still being used to force humanity into accepting the terms of its own imprisonment and in turn policing others within the prison without bars.”
― Paul Joseph Watson

tags: 1984, big-brother, despotism, freedom, homeland-security, liberty, orwell, police-state, war-on-terror

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#26

“A utopian system, when established by men, is likely to be synonymous with a dystopian depression. The only way for perfect peace by man is absolute control of all wrongs. Bully-cultures find this: with each and every mistake, another village idiot is shamed into nothingness and mindlessly shut down by the herd. This is a superficial peace made by force and by fear, one in which there is no freedom to breathe; and the reason it is impossible for man to maintain freedom and peace for everyone at the same time. Christ, on the other hand, transforms, instead of controls, by instilling his certain inner peace. This is the place where one realizes that only his holiness is and feels like true freedom, rather than like imprisonment, and, too, why Hell, I imagine, a magnified version of man's never-ending conflict between freedom and peace, would be the flesh's ultimate utopia - yet its ultimate regret.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

tags: apologetics, artificiality, battle, bully, chaos, christ, conflict, confusion, control, culture, depression, devil, dictatorship, dystopia, establishment, fear, force, forgiveness, freedom, god, good-intentions, government, grace, heaven, hell, herd-mentality, holiness, imprisonment, inner-peace, man, mercy, oppression, peace, philosophy, police-state, political, reality, regret, salvation, satan, sin, society, superficiality, theology, totalitarian, transformation, tyranny, unity, utopia, vanity, war

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#27

“The fall of moral civilization has always been brought about by those who were "just doing their jobs".”
― Jeremy Grantham

tags: communism, despotism, distopian, fascism, police-state

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#28

“If life was fair ... one third of the people would comprise of judges and lawyers ... one third of police and prison officials ... and one third of legislators ... and one third more to make the other three thirds make any sense at all .... Thank goodness for no fair.”
― Brian Spellman

tags: crime-and-punishment, fairness, judges-and-justice, law, lawyers, legislators, police-state, prison

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#29

“Start with the observation that American law is not designed to catch and punish every instance of illegal conduct. Nothing short of a totalitarian state could do that. It is designed to prosecute persons when there is a reasonable basis for believing they have committed a crime, and then to convict them when there is no reasonable doubt that they are guilty.”
― Dale Carpenter, Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence v. Texas

tags: 2012, jurisprudence, law, police-state

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#30

“Most police cars are the equivalent of an electrical room on wheels and it does not surprise me that police officers that spend time in such a biologically toxic environment are displaying aggression.”
― Steven Magee

tags: aggression, biologically, car, cars, display, displaying, displays, electrical, environment, environmental, environmental-degradation, police, police-brutality, police-corruption, police-officer, police-service, police-state, policeman, policemen, room, toxic, toxic-people, toxicity, toxicology

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#31

“I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: speaking-your-mind

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