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Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are. —BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
“It’s all too easy to assume that the darkness in this world lies outside of ourselves. That others are to blame. Yet only when we learn to see the darkness inside of ourselves, can we hope to develop compassion for the darkness in others. For even the darkest of places contain the seed of light.”
― Wilderness, The Gateway To The Soul: Spiritual Enlightenment Through Wilderness
― Wilderness, The Gateway To The Soul: Spiritual Enlightenment Through Wilderness
“Never make the mistake of thinking that alcoholics are weak because it took an incredible amount of internal strength and conviction in order for me to keep drinking despite the growing mountain of evidence against it.”
― The Long Run
― The Long Run
“Beauty is indeed a choice. Day by day, moment by moment, we choose love or hate, life or death, light or darkness. The seeds for both are contained within all things, both living and nonliving. It all depends on what we focus on. We create our own world. Focus on beauty and beauty you find. Focus on darkness and darkness will prevail. Beauty guides through the heart. Darkness through the mind.”
― Wilderness, The Gateway To The Soul: Spiritual Enlightenment Through Wilderness
― Wilderness, The Gateway To The Soul: Spiritual Enlightenment Through Wilderness
“Alcohol is a great aggregator: when you are drinking to excess, every problem seems to fall under that umbrella. When you stop drinking, all those little problems scatter, like knocking a container of your sister’s tiny glass beads off the arm of the couch. You can clean up that big clump of them pretty quickly but for the rest of your life, you will be finding them between the seat cushions, under the couch, stuck to your feet, sometimes even carrying them in to bed with you.”
― The Long Run
― The Long Run
“The daughters of the high priest Anius changed whatever they chose into wheat, wine or oil. Athalida, daughter of Mercury, was resuscitated several times. Aesculapius resuscitated Hippolytus. Hercules dragged Alcestis back from death. Heres returned to the world after passing a fortnight in hell. The parents of Romulus and Remus were a god and a vestal virgin. The Palladium fell from heaven in the city of Troy. The hair of Berenice became a constellation.… Give me the name of one people among whom incredible prodigies were not performed, especially when few knew how to read and write.—VOLTAIRE, MIRACLES AND IDOLATRY”
― God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
― God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
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