Recent quote-age

"Buddhism holds that everything is in a constant state of flux. thus the question is whether we are to accept change passively and be swept away by it or whether we are to take the lead and create positive changes on our own intiative. While conservativism and self-protection might be likened to winter, night and death, the spirit of pioneering and attempting to realize ideals evokes images of spring, morning and birth."

"And yet we are forced to acknowledge that the world today is at anything but peace. Rather, having entered the new century, we find ourselves living in a world of ever-greater confusion and complexity, wracked with ominous tension. In the midst of this stifling reality, we hear the insidious voices of despair, counesling us to accept war as an inevitable aspect of the human condition."

"Go, dear friend! if need be, give up all else, and comence to-day to inure yourself to pluc, reality, self-esteem, definiteness, elevatedness; Rest not, till you rivet and publish yourself of your own personality."

"If they answer not to they call walk alone, / If they are afraid and cover mutely facing the wall,... / open thy mind and speak out alone."

"The life we posess as human beings has within it the inherent capacity to transform any hardship or adversity into new flights of creativity. It is our encounters with adversity that, more than anything, enable us to draw forth and unleash this capacity."

"One's-Self I sing, a simple separate person, / Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. / Of physiology from top to toe I sing, / Not physiognomy alone nore brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say / the Form complete is worthier far, the Female equally with the Male I sing."

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