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"But if you live your life without feeling and compassion for your fellowman-you are as an animal-'an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth' & happiness & peace of mind is not attained by living thus."
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"To demonstrate the deeds of the kingdom is to love and understand the deeds."

"We glorify God when we appreciate humans."

"It is better to help an enemy than to harm a friend."

"Only love can inspire us to sacrifice."

"Perhaps above everything compassion is the most important thing to embrace and emanate in life. It will enhance your life - and it's the one thing that will elevate and heal mankind."

"When it is all too much; when the news is so bad meditation itself feels useless, and a single life feels too small a stone to offer on the altar of Peace, find a Human Sunrise. Find those people who are committed to changing our scary reality. Human sunrises are happening all over the earth, at every moment. People gathering, people working to change the intolerable, people coming in their robes and sandals or in their rags and bare feet, and they are singing, or not, and they are chanting, or not. But they are working to bring peace, light, compassion, to the infinitely frightening downhill slide of Human life."

"Every living creature on the earth is special. You want to be the one that puts an end to one of them?"

"When we're inspired by the desire to practice and transform our suffering, the mind of the moment is very beautiful. Sometimes we call it the mind of love. It's because of love that we practice."

"Zarathustra answered: "I love mankind."

"It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded."
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"Before publication, and if provided by persons whose judgment you trust, yes, of course criticism helps. But after something is published, all I want to read or hear is praise."


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"Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down."
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