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“Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. Even before there were large numbers of Negroes on our shore, the scar of racial hatred had already disfigured colonial socie
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“When people are sad they usually make such unreasonable requests that, deity though I am, I am unable to fulfill them. Some pray to be made rich overnight. Some covet other people's wives. Some want to kill the people they hate. Some want the rain changed to sunny weather. Some even want the nose they were born with to be a little bigger. Everyone wants something else. They all pray in vain to Buddha and to the gods, even though their requests cannot possibly be granted, thus making nuisances of themselves.”
― Five Women Who Loved Love: Amorous Tales from 17th-century Japan
― Five Women Who Loved Love: Amorous Tales from 17th-century Japan
“Now that your worry has proved such an unlucrative business,
Why not find a better job?”
― The Poetry Pharmacy Returns: More Prescriptions for Courage, Healing and Hope
Why not find a better job?”
― The Poetry Pharmacy Returns: More Prescriptions for Courage, Healing and Hope
“It is our earth, not yours or mine or his. We are meant to live on it, helping each other, not destroying each other. This is not some romantic nonsense but the actual fact. But man has divided the earth, hoping thereby that in the particular he is going to find happiness, security, a sense of abiding comfort. Until a radical change takes place and we wipe out all nationalities, all ideologies, all religious divisions, and establish a global relationship - psychologically first, inwardly before organizing the outer - we shall go on with wars. If you harm others, if you kill others, whether in anger or by organized murder which is called war, you, who are the rest of humanity, not a separate human being fighting the rest of mankind, are destroying yourself.”
― Krishnamurti to Himself: His Last Journal
― Krishnamurti to Himself: His Last Journal
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