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"A major revolution to be won in the immediate future is the dissipation of man's illusion that his own welfare can be seperate from that of all others. As long as man is shackled to this myth, so long will the human spirit languish. Concern for our private material well being with disregard for the well being of others is immoral... but worse, it is stupidity."
- Saul B Alinsky

"Earth's crammed with heaven
And every common bush alive with God
Only he who sees takes off his shoes
The rest sit around and pluck blackberries"
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"God is the beyond in our midst"
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"Happiness lies in living for others. That is evident. The desire for happiness is innate in every man; therefore it is legitimate. When trying to satisfy it selfishly - that is, by seeking for oneself riches, fame, comforts, or love - it may happen that circumstances arise which make it impossible to satisfy these desires. Therefore it follows that these desires are illegitimate, but not the need for happiness. But what desires can always be satisfied, despite external circumstances? What are they? ove and self-sacrifice. Since one wants nothing for himself, why not live for others?"
- Leo Tolstoy

"[The Irish are the] one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever."
- Freud

In the late afternoon, when the children tire of their games, it is then that they turn to torturing the cat.
G K Chesterton

In the Soviet Union, we are in the habit of admiring the faces of actors rather than their backsides. This is what you call freedom - freedom for the girls to show their backsides. To us its pornography. It is capitalism that makes the girls that way. What kind of sick man would ask a girl to do something like that?"
- Nikita Khrushchev (On seeing Hollywood in action during his visit to the US)

Spirituality is the lamp, morality the door, ethics the vehicle, love the altar.
- Bill Holton Leadership Lessons of Robert E Lee

It doesn't matter how much you have, so long as you fight with what you have. It doesn't matter where you fight, so long as you fight. Because where you fight, the enemy has to fight too, and even though it splits your force, it must split his force also. So fight, on whatever the scale, whenever and wherever you can. There is only one way to win victories. Attack! Attack! Attack!
- Douglas MacArthur

It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
- Thomas Jefferson

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.
- Geothe

The man who fears to be alone will never be anything but lonely, no matter how much he may surround himself with people.
Thomas Merton

There is some advantage in being the humblest, cheapest, least dignified man in the village, so that the very stable boys damn you. Methinks I enjoy that advantage to an unusual extent.
Henry David Thoreau

Gaining enlightenment is an accident. Spiritual practise simply makes one accident prone.
Zen proverb