Hamid

“When you are concerned with either attacking or defending, manipulating or resisting...you cannot be contemplative. When you are preoccupied with enemies, you are always dualistic.”
― Richard Rohr, The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See

“...the point [of self control] is that we should miss out on that which poses a threat to our moral fortitude and psychological integrity such as constantly hunting for new experiences, relationships and objects that provide a fleeting rush of happiness...”
― Svend Brinkmann

“Without an ethical framework, the will is random, controlled solely by the individual's more or less fleeting desires...”
― Svend Brinkmann

“When modern culture tries to replace sin with ideas like error or insensitivity, or tries to banish words like "virtue", "character", "evil" and "vice" altogether, that doesn't make life any less moral; it just means we have obscured the inescapable moral core of life with shallow language.”
― David Brooks