Tim Az

“There is more to the resettlement of men, women and children than fronting an airplane ticket and hustling refugees, who just survived war and genocide, to the lowest paying job sites. Refugees are human beings, they are not objects, cases, documents or the crisis they escaped. The intention to rescue the whole human, not just the laborer, requires compassionate response to their compounded trauma, experienced violence and the cultural shock of a new country.”
― Liyah Babayan, Liminal: a refugee memoir

“To sacrifice ourselves to God (to the highest good, if you like) does not mean to suffer silently and willingly when some person or organization demands more from us, consistently, than is offered in return. That means we are supporting tyranny, and allowing ourselves to be treated like slaves. It is not virtuous to be victimized by a bully, even if that bully is oneself.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“Look deeply at your anger, as you would look at your own child. Don’t reject it or hate it. The point of meditation is not to turn yourself into a battlefield, one side opposing the other. Conscious breathing soothes and calms the anger, and mindfulness penetrates it. Anger is just an energy, and all energies can be transformed. Meditation is the art of using one kind of energy to transform another.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh 一行禅师

“The only real fall of man is his noneucharistic life in a noneucharistic world.”
― Alexander Schmemann, For the Life of the World: Sacraments and Orthodoxy