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"More servants wait on man than he'll take notice of." Ralph Waldo Emerson Many over the eons have conceived of, and writt...

"During the time of the Buddha, there were some who slandered him and became disciples of heretics and demons." -- Mud & Wate...

Some people say: 'Alas, sir, I wish I stood as well with my spiritual life and devotions, that I had as much devotion and were as much ...

"When they go, Ghana will be here. They are like mice on an elephant's back. They will pass...He is just part of Africa." -...

The name "Valentine", is derived from valens, meaning worthy, and was popular in late antiquity. Of the Saint Valentine whose...

"Sexual desire without Eros wants the thing in itself." -- The Four Loves,  C.S. Lewis Venus, the goddess of love in Greek myth...

"Friendship must be about something." --C.S. Lewis C.S. Lewis wrote a classical interpretation of many emotions central to hu...

"That our affections not kill us, or die." --Donne Affection unites even the most unlikely of partners. Affection, an intense...

Recognize that a concept is just a concept, and not reality. --Joko Charlotte Beck Generalizations. Assumptions. We all make them. And t...

"The fall of the first human being from... wisdom to folly was neither wise nor foolish..."  On Free Choice of the Will by August...

"Man is higher than the brute." MK Gandhi Writing about Ahimsa , Gandhi briefly describes it as, "the world is full of vio...

For some, poetry aims highly at several things. As an art form it uses language in new and creative ways to express ideas and emotions; it...

"Take up the way of meeting others on equal ground." --Buddhist precept as discussed by Diane Rizzetto in her book, Waking Up t...

Sometimes we want to help others. When we give assistance to others it comes in different ways. It may be quiet, relying upon the attentive...

"An appropriate and compassionate response does not come from the fight for justice..."  --Charlotte Joko Beck Joko Beck in her...

"He who does not expect, has all things" Charlotte Joko Beck writes, "Our human trouble arises from desire. Not all desire...

Pray to be known, to be understood and to be welcome -- Anthony Gittens Throughout the many religious traditions the world has known, t...

"Locke and Spinoza are the chalk and cheese of the early Enlightenment..."  -- Nature's God by Matthew Stewart The origins ...

"This was also the point in my life when I became a master at masking my true thoughts."    --an unknown blogger Simple Mindedl...

"If Christ, for one had practiced the love we advocate these days, he would have lived to a ripe old age." In his classic...