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companions. Which brings me back to the message His Holiness asked me to pass on
Second in a trilogy, life lessons in mindfulness from a most unusual source. All three books are worth a read.
“I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress.”
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“With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.”
― Fahrenheit 451
― Fahrenheit 451
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
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“We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.”
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“Many people, even in this country, have material problems because they are concerned for only themselves. Even though society offers many good situations, they are still in the preta realm. I think so, isn’t it? You are living in America but you’re still living in the preta realm—of the three lower realms, the hungry ghost realm; you are still living in the hungry ghost realm.”
― The Essence of Tibetan Buddhism: The Three Principal Aspects of the Path and An Introduction to Tantra
― The Essence of Tibetan Buddhism: The Three Principal Aspects of the Path and An Introduction to Tantra
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