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“Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.”
― Rumi

“Nothing has contributed more to the systematic mass incarceration of people of color in the United States than the War on Drugs.”
― Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

“When you eventually see through the veils to how things really are, you will keep saying again and again, this is certainly not like we thought it was." - Rumi”
― James Blanchard Cisneros, You Have Chosen to Remember: A Journey of Self-Awareness, Peace of Mind and Joy

“Sometimes we don’t know until much later that a particular moment in time has changed our life’s direction.”
― Bronnie Ware, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing

“Gratitude for every day along the way is the key to acknowledging and enjoying happiness now.”
― Bronnie Ware, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing

“Regarding faith, my adherence to Islam had not diminished over the years since my conversion, but I had modified it from the intense orthodoxy I had followed at first to a more streamlined version that I felt was more progressive and inclusive. I practiced quietly on my own without the need to proselytize. I had been able to separate my faith in the theology from using it to make a cultural statement about black Americans. My only interest in Islam was spiritual and ethical guidance, not politics. In”
― Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Coach Wooden and Me: Our 50-Year Friendship On and Off the Court

“The ability to observe the mind dispassionately and to still it, is known in India as yoga.145”
― Simon Haas, The Book of Dharma: Making Enlightened Choices

“Alexander the Great died a young man having accomplished many feats, having travelled all the way into India, but never having completed the most important journey of all – the inner journey.”
― Simon Haas, The Book of Dharma: Making Enlightened Choices

“Progress doesn’t move in a straight line.”
― Ben Rhodes, The World As It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House

“Just seventeen years after Benjamin Franklin became America’s first postmaster general, the Post Office Act utterly transformed his modest mail network. He would have been flabbergasted by the speed at which the post would become the federal government’s biggest, most important department and prime the United States to become the world’s most literate, best-informed country within two generations—surely one of the most significant, least appreciated developments in American history. •”
― Winifred Gallagher, How the Post Office Created America: A History

“The first meaning of “earn my freedom” was recognizing I won the world lottery by being born in the United States of America but had done absolutely nothing to earn it. Serving my country was one way to do so.”
― Clif Smith, Mindfulness without the Bells and Beads: Unlocking Exceptional Performance, Leadership, and Well-being for Working Professionals