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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?"
"Zarathustra answered: "I love mankind."
"The first step toward feeling compassion for others is to set the intention to try it out."
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"My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we'd lie in the same bed, and I'd read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel."
"Gay people were seen as magical, too. I mean, like in many cultures, men were viewed as warriors and women were viewed as caregivers. But gay people, being both male and female, were seen as both warriors and caregivers. Gay people could do anything. They were like Swiss Army knives!"
"But, in the Trump aftermath, I've measured the costsAnd benefits of loving those who don't loveStrangers. After all, I'm often the odd one-The strangest stranger-in any field or room."He was weird" will be carved into my tomb."
"If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads."
"My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive stuff, but the damage."
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