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Benedict's Dharma: Buddhists Reflect on the Rule of Saint Benedict

by Patrick Henry

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Jen’s Quotes

“Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.”
― Garrison Keillor, Good Poems

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“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”
― Carl Sagan

tags: connection, evolution, humanity, humility, life, love, meaning, people, purpose, vastness

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“My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances”
― Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

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“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.”
― Elbert Hubbard

tags: mistakes

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“It's so hard to believe in anything anymore. I mean, it's like, religion, you really can't take it seriously, because it seems so mythological, it seems so arbitrary...but, on the other hand, science is just pure empiricism, and by virtue of its method, it excludes metaphysics. I guess I wouldn't believe in anything anymore if it weren't for my lucky astrology mood watch.”
― Steve Martin

tags: humor, religion, science

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