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David  Brooks
“In this scheme of things we don’t create our lives; we are summoned by life. The important answers are not found inside, they are found outside. This perspective begins not within the autonomous self, but with the concrete circumstances in which you happen to be embedded. This perspective begins with an awareness that the world existed long before you and will last long after you, and that in the brief span of your life you have been thrown by fate, by history, by chance, by evolution, or by God into a specific place with specific problems and needs. Your job is to figure certain things out: What does this environment need in order to be made whole? What is it that needs repair? What tasks are lying around waiting to be performed? As the novelist Frederick Buechner put it, “At what points do my talents and deep gladness meet the world’s deep need?”
David Brooks, The Road to Character

Dōgen
“Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.”
Dogen Zenji

Maajid Nawaz
“As he continued to talk to me, I realized one of the fundamental points about Islamism that so many people fail to understand. The way Osman was speaking wasn’t in the orthodox, religious way of the imam with a stick; he was talking about politics, about events that were happening now. That’s crucial to understanding what Islamism is all about: it isn’t a religious movement with political consequences, it is a political movement with religious consequences.”
Maajid Nawaz, Radical: My Journey out of Islamist Extremism

Maajid Nawaz
“No idea is above scrutiny and no people are beneath dignity.”
Maajid Nawaz, Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue

John Steinbeck
“You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what is, where most people see what they expect.”
John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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A harmonious place to discuss and consider the offerings of Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett.
53597 Seoul Book Club Hosted by Barry Welsh — 364 members — last activity Jul 14, 2026 12:46PM
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