Theconventional view

Theconventional view
Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
  

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The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.
Aperson whose heart is not content is like a snake which tries to swallow anelephant.
Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.
Don'tbe afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.
Man's life would be wretched and confined if it were to missthe candid intimacy developed by mutual trust and esteem.
People who fight with fire usually end up with ashes.
It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.
The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends forwhich we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We haveguided missiles and misguided men.
No one was ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself.