“A survey was conducted in 1995 asking the following question: “Would you close your eyes for a second, envision a drug user, and describe that person to me?” The startling results were published in the Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education. Ninety-five percent of respondents pictured a black drug user, while only 5 percent imagined other racial groups.39 These results contrast sharply with the reality of drug crime in America. African Americans constituted only 15 percent of current drug users in 1995, and they constitute roughly the same percentage today. Whites constituted the vast majority of drug users then (and now), but almost no one pictured a white person when asked to imagine what a drug user looks like. The same group of respondents also perceived the typical drug trafficker as black.”
― The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
― The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
“We now send our books, our music and even our memories into a cloud. We may or may not believe in God but we do once again believe in meaningful consciousness residing outside of ourselves.”
― Why I am an Atheist Who Believes in God: How to give love, create beauty and find peace
― Why I am an Atheist Who Believes in God: How to give love, create beauty and find peace
“Our Living School in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is trying to reintroduce the West to what we call the Perennial Tradition, the underground stream that we all share. That does not mean I encourage you to abandon your own mother tradition. You have to know the rules before you can know how to break the rules properly. You have to be surrendered and accountable to one Tradition, as even the Dalai Lama and Mother Teresa both insisted. Otherwise, your ego self is always the decider, and you operate outside the living Body of Christ.”
― Silent Compassion: Finding God in Contemplation
― Silent Compassion: Finding God in Contemplation
“When we are in good health, we all feel very real, solid, and permanent; and this is of all our illusions the most ridiculous, and also the most obviously useful from the point of view of the efficiency and preservation of the race.”
― Mysticism
― Mysticism
“When you say you love God, you are saying you love everything. Immature religion becomes an excuse for not loving a whole bunch of things and reveals that you have not had an authentic God experience yet. Rigid religion and compulsive religiosity, all unloving religion, is a rather clear sign that you have not met God! Once you have had a unitive experience with God, reality, or even yourself, your life invariably shows two things: quiet confidence and joyous gratitude.”
― Silent Compassion: Finding God in Contemplation
― Silent Compassion: Finding God in Contemplation
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