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Book cover for The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times
Those who train wholeheartedly in awakening unconditional and relative bodhichitta are called bodhisattvas or warriors—not warriors who kill and harm but warriors of nonaggression who hear the cries of the world. These are men and women who ...more
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Anne Sexton
“It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.”
Anne Sexton

George Eliot
“But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
George Eliot, Middlemarch

“The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.”
Gary Seronik, Binocular Highlights: 99 Celestial Sights for Binocular Users

“In 1951, Aerojet provided an employee cafeteria that featured roast prime rib of beef (seventy-five cents) on Thursdays, New York steaks (eighty-five cents) on Wednesdays and lobster (seventy-five cents) on Friday.”
Maryellen Burns, Lost Restaurants of Sacramento & Their Recipes

Timothy J. Henderson
“Few Indians or castes fought to forge a new nation called Mexico; such a scheme would have made little sense, and held little interest, for them. They fought in the hope that their lot in life might in some way improve. The”
Timothy J. Henderson, The Mexican Wars for Independence

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