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“The mother of Jesus, I sometimes remember, was visited by an angel and is seen as a saint; the mother of the Buddha died at his birth. Is it any surprise that Buddhism is about learning to live with loss, while Christianity is about salvation from above?”
― Pico Iyer, A Beginner's Guide to Japan: Observations and Provocations

“Good listeners have negative capability. They are able to cope with contradictory ideas and gray areas. Good listeners know there is usually more to the story than first appears and are not so eager for tidy reasoning and immediate answers, which is perhaps the opposite to being narrow-minded...In the psychological literature, negative capability is known as cognitive complexity, which research shows is positively related to self-compassion and negatively related to dogmatism.”
― Kate Murphy, You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters

“We ignore the child within by ascribing its voice to immaturity rather than validating its heart as honest.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“is it better for a man to choose to be bad than to be conditioned to be good?”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange