“Bad people are to be found everywhere, but even among the worst there may be something good.”
― The House of the Dead
― The House of the Dead
“The world of the senses is just a base camp: we are meant to be as much at home in consciousness as in the world of physical reality. This”
― The Bhagavad Gita
― The Bhagavad Gita
“Looking back at the worst times, it always seems that they were times in which there were people who believed with absolute faith and absolute dogmatism in something. And they were so serious in this matter that they insisted that the rest of the world agree with them. And then they would do things that were directly inconsistent with their own beliefs in order to maintain that what they said was true.”
― The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist
― The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist
“Even a second of freedom is worth more than a lifetime of bondage.”
― A Million Little Pieces
― A Million Little Pieces
“Unconditional Love conquers all!”
― Love is the Answer God is the Cure
― Love is the Answer God is the Cure
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