“There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.”
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“Violence is what we get when we do not know what else to do with our suffering.”
― Healing the Heart of Democracy: The Courage to Create a Politics Worthy of the Human Spirit
― Healing the Heart of Democracy: The Courage to Create a Politics Worthy of the Human Spirit
“That was the sort of thing crazy people did—instinctively choosing the experiences that confirmed their own negative attitudes.”
― The Book of Strange New Things
― The Book of Strange New Things
“I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so much self knowledge at the moment as I can bear and use at the moment; the little daily dose.”
― Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
― Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
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