 
   
      “Modern Westerners are taught to scoff at the idea of racial hierarchy. They are shocked by laws prohibiting blacks to live in white neighbourhoods, or to study in white schools, or to be treated in white hospitals. But the hierarchy of rich and poor – which mandates that rich people live in separate and more luxurious neighbourhoods, study in separate and more prestigious schools, and receive medical treatment in separate and better-equipped facilities – seems perfectly sensible to many Americans and Europeans.”
    
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
  ― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
 
      “It’s a remarkable fact that the people who have gone the very deepest into the mind—the sages and saints of every religious tradition—all say essentially the same thing: your fundamental nature is pure, conscious, peaceful, radiant, loving, and wise, and it is joined in mysterious ways with the ultimate underpinnings of reality, by whatever name we give That.”
    
― Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom
  ― Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom
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