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Marcus J. Borg
“the Bible is a human product: it tells us how our religious ancestors saw things, not how God sees things.”
Marcus J. Borg, Convictions: How I Learned What Matters Most

Robert M. Pirsig
“When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other things.”
Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Jonathan Sacks
“Science takes things apart to see how they work. Religion puts things together to see what they mean.”
Jonathan Sacks

Robert M. Pirsig
“When you live in the shadow of insanity, the appearance of another mind that thinks and talks as yours does is something close to a blessed event.”
Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values

Ogden Nash
“Excerpted from A PLEA FOR A LEAGUE OF SLEEP

... My life with joy is sometimes fraught,
But mostly when I'm doing naught.
Yea, I could spend my whole career
A pillow underneath my ear.
How wise was he who wittily said
That there is nothing like a bed.
A mattress is what I like to creep on;
The right side is the one I sleep on.

...Stalin and Hitler while they sleep
Are harmless as a baby sheep;
Tyrants who cause the earth to quake
Are only dangerous when awake.
This world would be a happier place,
And happier the human race,
And all our pilots be less Pontius,
If people spent more time unconscious.”
Ogden Nash, Collected Verse from 1929 On

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