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| First we must help; then, later we can talk about the causes of any tragedy. There is an Indian saying: if you are struck by a poisonous arrow, it is important first to pull it out. There is no time to ask who shot it, what sort of poison it is, and so on. First handle the immediate problem, and later investigate. Similarly, when we encounter human suffering, it is important to respond with compassion rather than to question the politics of those we help. |
| ~ The Path to Tranquility, July 2, 14th Dalai Lama ~ |
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| The ultimate, angels' law, Indulging every instinct of the soul There where law, life, joy, impulse are one thing! |
| ~ Robert Browning, A Death in the Desert. ~ |
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| Let us examine what "I" or "self" is. What is definite is that it does not exist independently of our body and mind. And out of the two, the body and mind, it is clear that the body cannot be seen as this "self." Feelings are also not the self because there is a "feeler" and a feeling. Also, the way we naturally perceive ourselves, the way the sense of "self" arises, is that there is something like the agent or the subject, which experiences and perceives. So to our naive, natural mind, everything appears as if it has an independent, solid, objective entity or objective status. However, what is very clear is that when we begin to search, they disintegrate and disappear and they are unfindable. |
| ~ The Path to Tranquility, December 15, 14th Dalai Lama ~ |
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| Sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart. |
| ~ William Wordsworth, Lines completed a few miles above Tintern Abbey. ~ |
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| Because the good old rule Sufficeth them,-the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can. |
| ~ William Wordsworth, Rob Roy's Grave. ~ |
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| Parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till-'t is gone, and all is gray. |
| ~ Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iv. Stanza 29. ~ |
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| Slowly, and in spite of anything we Americans do or do not do, it looks a little as if you and some other good people are going to have to answer the old question of whether you want to keep your country unshackled by taking even more definite steps to do so—even firing shots—or, on the other hand, submitting to be shackled for the sake of not losing one American life. |
| ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945), U.S. president. Letter, May 19, 1941, to Representative James F. O’Connor of Montana. The Roosevelt Letters, vol. 3, p. 370, ed. Elliott Roosevelt, George G. Harrup & Co., Ltd. (1952). The President attempted to persuade extreme isolationists like O’Connor that they were risking losing their freedom to totalitarian domination by refusing to aid Britain and that the United States was not going to be left alone simply because Americans withheld aid from the Allies. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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