Verandananda

When death comes to find you, may it find you alive.

- African proverb
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Perhaps you think you did not make the world, but came unwillingly to
what was made already, hardly waiting for your thoughts to give it
meaning. Yet in truth you found exactly what you looked for when you
came. There is no world apart from what you wish, and herein lies
your ultimate release. Change but your mind on what you want to see,
and all the world must change accordingly.
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The mind of a Wayfarer is plain and direct, without artificiality.
There is no rejection and no attachment, no deceptive wandering mind.
At all times seeing and hearing are normal. There are no further
details. One does not, furthermore, close the eyes or shut the ears;
as long as feelings do not stick to things, that will do.

- Kuei-Shan (771-854)
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When you are old, you become impatient with the way in which the
young applaud the most insignificant improvements - the invention of
some new valve or sprocket - while remaining heedless of the world's
barbarism.
Julian Barnes - Flaubert's Parrot

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If you know that everything comes from the mind, don't become
attached. Once attached, you're unaware. But once you see your own
nature, the entire Canon becomes so much prose. It's thousands of
sutras and shastras only amount to a clear mind. Understanding comes
in midsentence. What good are doctrines?
- Bodhidharma (d. 533)
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"When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left, I buy
food and clothes."
-- Desiderius Erasmus
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Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is
evil; our great hope lies in developing what is good.
-- Calvin Coolidge

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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is
that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our
Darkness, that most frightens us.
Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

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Just as a man shudders with horror when he steps upon a serpent, but
laughs when he looks down and sees that it is only a rope, so I
discovered one day what I was calling "I" cannot be found, and all
fear and anxiety vanished with my mistake.

The Buddha
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You may have a fresh start at any moment you choose, for this thing
we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.
—Mary Pickford, actress
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Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it
injures the hated.
- Coretta Scott King
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The sooner we use up all the oil, the sooner we can stop caring about
the Middle East and global warming, and move on to a cleaner, safer,
alternative.
So, please: guzzle gas. For the children.

Ayn Marx

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"No question that the enemy has tried to spread sectarian violence.
They use violence as a tool to do that."— George W. Bush, Washington,
D.C., 3/22/06

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Fearful people are more dependent, more easily manipulated and
controlled, more susceptible to deceptively simple, strong, tough
measures and hard-line postures. ... They may accept and even welcome
repression if it promises to relieve their insecurities.
George Gerbner
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The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems,
takes longer.
Edward R. Murrow

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If you're not laughing by now you don't fully appreciate the situation.