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"“This is a challenge I wish to place before the burgeoning fields of conflict transformation and peacebuilding… we need a dose of realism. Ours are professions afflicted with a proclivity toward the promise of great change. It is true. Our rhetoric comes easy. If constructive social change rolled forward as easily as our words and promises pour out, world justice and peace would have surely been attained by now.”" — 10 hours, 42 min ago
"“This is a challenge I wish to place before the burgeoning fields of conflict transformation and peacebuilding… we need a dose of realism. Ours are professions afflicted with a proclivity toward the promise of great change. It is true. Our rhetoric comes easy. If constructive social change rolled forward as easily as our words and promises pour out, world justice and peace would have surely been attained by now.”" — 10 hours, 42 min ago
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"“No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city…"" — Sep 26, 2026 05:23AM
"“No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city…"" — Sep 26, 2026 05:23AM
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"“Your death will soon be on you: and you are not yet clear-minded, or untroubled, or free from the fear of external harm, or kindly to all people, or convinced that justice of action is the only wisdom.”" — Sep 11, 2026 05:09AM
"“Your death will soon be on you: and you are not yet clear-minded, or untroubled, or free from the fear of external harm, or kindly to all people, or convinced that justice of action is the only wisdom.”" — Sep 11, 2026 05:09AM
“Life is not something, it is the opportunity for something!”
― Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything
― Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything
“By not being aware of having a shadow, you declare a part of your personality to be non-existent. Then it enters the kingdom of the non-existent, which swells up and takes on enormous proportions…If you get rid of qualities you don’t like by denying them, you become more and more unaware of what you are, you declare yourself more and more non-existent, and your devils will grow fatter and fatter.”
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“The ticking clock of the New Year reminds us: time is not to be spent, but invested wisely in purpose and meaning.”
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“Whether a life is fulfilled does not depend on how great one's radius of action is, but rather only on whether the circle is fully filled out.”
― Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything
― Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything
“There is in every person an inward sea, and in that sea there is an island and on that island there is an altar and standing guard before that altar is the 'angel with the flaming sword.' Nothing can get by that angel to be placed upon that altar unless it has the mark of your inner authority. Nothing passes 'the angel with the flaming sword' to be placed upon your altar unless it be a part of 'the fluid area of your consent.' This is your crucial link with the Eternal.”
― Meditations of the Heart
― Meditations of the Heart
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