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“When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves or some immediate convenience. When we are able to recognize and forgive ignorant actions of the past, we gain strength to constructively solve the problems of the present.”
― The Dalai Lama

tags: compassion-wisdom

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“If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: books

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“What I really hoped for, no doubt, was to come upon one of those lives which begin nowhere, which lead us through marshes and salt flats, trickling away, seemingly without plan, purpose or goal, and suddenly emerge, gushing like geysers, and never cease gushing, even in death.”
― Henry Miller, Nexus

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“To show a child what has once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own, so that there is now a double delight seen in the glow of trust and affection, this is happiness.”
― J.B. Priestley

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“I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin." The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern."

[From the Preface]”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

tags: administration, big-business, bureaucracy, corporations, corporatocracy, dictatorship, efficiency, evil, hell, management, police-state

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PDX YA Book Club — 2 members — last activity Jun 19, 2012 09:19AM
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Portland Readers — 271 members — last activity Feb 18, 2019 04:18PM
People who like to read books* in Portland, OR and surrounding areas. * = books that are vegan, yes?

Irish Lit & Times — 350 members — last activity 4 hours, 30 min ago
Celtic peoples and lovers of the Irish alike, gather to sing our songs of joyous melancholia! Come discuss anything related to any Irish author, and f ...more

Healing with Asian Arts - Shiatsu, Jin Shin Do (Accupressure), Qi Gong — 26 members — last activity Oct 08, 2014 01:42AM
Food communication, whole foods healing can be done in an asian perspective, for example how Paul Pitchford teaches. But if you want to bring your hea ...more

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