Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.
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Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.
Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.
Give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and inward may be one.
Do you live in a mine field or a garden? When we live in a minefield mentality, we explode with the weeds of worry, doubt, fear, lack and limitation. Choose to cultivate your inner garden!
People with a high level of personal mastery are able to consistently realize the results that matter most deeply to them-in effect, they approach their life as an artist would approach a work of art. The do that by becoming committed to their own lifelong learning.
Attaining lasting happiness requires that we enjoy the journey on our way toward a destination we deem valuable. Happiness is not about making it to the peak of the mountain nor is it about climbing aimlessly around the mountain; happiness is the experience of climbing toward the peak.
Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.
A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
If we're going to be authentic in our leadership, we will have to be willing to serve, and we have to be willing to suffer.
Hatred is never ended by hatred but by love.
Speak to people according to the development of their consciousness, for if you speak all things to all people, some cannot understand you and so fall into errors!
The peace of God is not the absence of fear. It, in fact, is His presence.
It is best to live however one can be.
For when I am powerless, it is then that I am strong.
Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go?
Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do.
Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.
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