“A Man without culture is like a zebra without
stripes.”
Ancient Masai Proverb
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice
everywhere”
Dr
Martin Luther King Jr.
“Man walks by the “contradiction” of his feet,
for all opposites are complementary.
Such is the great law of dualism.”
Peul
oral tradition
‘Man has accepted conflict as an innate part of
daily existence because he has accepted competition, jealousy, greed,
acquisitiveness and aggression as a natural way of life.”
Krishnamurti
“Usually we think that brave people have no
fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear”
Pema Chodron
“Most of us have spent our lives caught up in
plans, expectations, ambitions for the future, in regrets,
guilt or shame about
the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.”
Jack
Kornfield
“Within the universe, at every level, all things vibrate.
Only the differing
frequencies of the vibrations prevent us from perceiving the realities we call
invisible.”
Amadou
Hampate Ba
“Love can come into being only when there is
total self-abandonment”
Krishnamurti
“Everyday a man must solve the problem of
widening the field of his life and adjusting his burdens.
These are to complex
and numerous for him to carry himself, but he knows by being methodical he can
lighten the load.
The search for this system is the search for the whole,
for
synthesis, our effort to create harmony.”
Rabindranath Tagore
“Only free men negotiate”
Nelson
Mandela
“The phrase ‘to meditate’ does not only mean to
examine, to observe, reflect, question, weigh,
it also
has, in the Sanskrit, a more profound meaning, which is ‘to become’ ”
Krishnamurti
“When we stop clinging to the concept of good
and evil,
the world will continue to manifest as friendly goddesses and harmful
demons.”
Pema
Chodron
“The ritual requires us to speak through our
heart;
the logic of the mind is an obstacle to its
success.”
Sobonfu
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