“ Of all the things we share, the most central is not in the liturgical or theological or canonical dimensions of the religion. It is in the realm of our personal search and experience of God. I have danced in a Sufi fikre, sat for hours in a Zen Buddhist tea ceremony, been part of a Hindu puja, attended Shabbat services in multiple Jewish synagogues, and never, in any of those moments of worship, did I doubt these people were just as deeply involved in the search for God as I am. And that God was with us all. And why not? God is everywhere, they told us as children. But the question never goes away: Yes, but where is God for me? I don't feel God. I don't hear God. I don't know how to know God. So God is surely in all these other places where the consciousness of God is also real, as well. But as much as I knew, even as a child, that it had to be true, that God was everywhere, still God was nowhere in particular in life. And, though I did not know it at the time, and so struggled through the thought of god for night after night in life, in that reality was all I needed to know about the search for God. It was years, of course, before I realized that I was looking for Something rather than for Everything, and so I found nothing because I was looking for the wrong thing. And that is the kind of seeking that causes all the pain. ”
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“ To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing that well with one dollar, which any bungler can do with two after a fashion. ”
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“ To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing that well with one dollar, which any bungler can do with two after a fashion. ”
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“ Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won. ”
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“ Work is not slavery, then. Work is creativity. It is the expression of ourselves that no one else can duplicate. ”
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“ The message we have internalized is clear - we are what we do and what we own, not what we are inside ourselves. Where it counts! ”
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“ Persistence may not solve everything - at least in our lifetime - but it is truer to the meaning of life for us to wait for another plowing, another seeding, another harvest, then not. ”
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“ I have come to understand that it is not protesting what we do not like that counts. It is choosing what we do which, ultimately, changes things. ”
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“ Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any. ”
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“ Hard pounding, gentlemen: but we shall see who can pound the longest. ”
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“ It is in community that we come to see God in the other. It is in community that we see our own emptiness filled up. It is community that calls me beyond the pinched horizons of my own life, my own country, my own race, and gives me the gifts I do not have within me. ”
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“ Work is not slavery, then. Work is creativity. It is the expression of ourselves that no one else can duplicate. ”
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“ The question is not, do we go to church; the question is, have we been converted. The crux of Christianity is not whether or not we give donations to popular charities but whether or not we are really committed to the poor. ”
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“ The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals. ”
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“ The question is not, do we go to church; the question is, have we been converted. The crux of Christianity is not whether or not we give donations to popular charities but whether or not we are really committed to the poor. ”
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“ The question is not, do we go to church; the question is, have we been converted. The crux of Christianity is not whether or not we give donations to popular charities but whether or not we are really committed to the poor. ”
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“ The question is not, do we go to church; the question is, have we been converted. The crux of Christianity is not whether or not we give donations to popular charities but whether or not we are really committed to the poor. ”
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“ The message we have internalized is clear - we are what we do and what we own, not what we are inside ourselves. Where it counts! ”
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“ Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won. ”
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“ Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won. ”
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“ Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won. ”
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“ Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won. ”
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“ Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won. ”
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“ In the East, at least, November is a sear month, beautiful for its bleakness.... It is a time of great life learning: We learn that we cannot control the passage of time in life. We learn to accept each of the stages of life with serenity. We learn to look to new moments in life with hope rather than despair. ”
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“ Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any. ”
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