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So if your goal is to avoid pain and escape suffering, I would not advise you to seek higher levels of consciousness or spiritual evolution. First, you cannot achieve them without suffering, and second, insofar as you do achieve them, you are likely to be called on to serve in ways more painful to you, or at least demanding of you, than you can now imagine. — M. Scott Peck

Modern love is the enterprise that everyone wants to be a part of, yet there's a fifty percent divorce rate in round one and a sixty-five percent divorce rate in round two. — Esther Perel

I think of that lost world, the way we lived before these new networking technologies, as having two poles: solitude and communion. The new chatter puts us somewhere in between, assuaging fears of being alone without risking real connection. It is a shallow between two deeper zones, a safe spot between the dangers of contact with ourselves, with others. — Rebecca Solnit

All ethical people strive to choose "right" over "easy" when confronted by situations that force them to choose one or the other. — Derrick Bell

You've got five minutes to get your ass up and in the shower, or the shower's coming to you. — Sylvia Day

After 1968 the restored communist regime required all Czech rock musicians to sit a written exam in Marxism Leninism — Niall Ferguson

This 'Akram science' does not scorn worldly interaction in the slightest. While living absolutely within it's reality, It does not scorn the worldly interaction. Not scorning worldly interaction is itself a thing of principle. — Dada Bhagwan

No ease for the boy at the keyhole,
his telescope,
when the women's white bodies flashed
in the bathroom. Young, my eyes began to fail.

Nothing! No oil
for the eye, nothing to pour
on those waters or flames.
I am tired. Everyone's tired of my turmoil. — Robert Lowell

Never judge the others
for each one wears a cover
for their version of the original.
(talking about individuals in the stream of consciousness that gives rise to each one of us.) — Jay Woodman

When I have a mission, it gives me something to focus on. — Duncan Bannatyne

How do you English Socialists believe in Empire like that?' Steele said to Holmes. 'Empire is inimical to Democracy and it has no right to exist in a free world. — James Aldridge

The left promises abortion rights and cradle to the grave protection, so the trick is to make it to the cradle. — Dennis Miller

To care for things when others don't care, that's what makes you human. — Adam Gottbetter

Your body is a temple, Eleanor. You should treat it like the priceless and holy vessel it is. I learned one thing and one thing only from watching my father's wife. If you're going to redecorate, either learn how to do it properly, or hire a professional. — Anonymous

Having failed to find — Roger Forsdyke