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“[Transcendentalism maintains] that man has ideas, that come not through the five sense, or the powers of reasoning; but are either the result of direct revelation from God, his immediate inspiration, or his immanent presence in the spiritual world.”
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“May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.”
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“Saint Augustine … insisted that scripture taught nothing but charity. Whatever the biblical author may have intended, any passage that seemed to preach hatred and was not conducive to love must be interpreted allegorically and made to speak of charity.”
― Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life
― Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life
“If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void. (95)”
― Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life
― Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life
“The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism -- ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.... Among us today a concentration of private power without equal in history is growing.”
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