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Compassion For Our Ignorance
…kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I’ll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else. Kindness-that simple word…If you’re kind, that’s it.
— Ronald Dahl
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Victorian writers: He was, in the way of most men, possessed of a rudimentary intelligence, his countenance ordinary, his bearing mild, with some weakness about the shoulders, his hair the color of ash; he spoke of the weather.
Modern writers: I met this guy, he was average…
— From Luna Wright
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Like an artist frightened
By the devil he paints,
The sufferer in Samsara
Is terrified by his own imagination.
Like a man caught in quicksands
Thrashing and struggling about,
so beings to drown
in the mess of their own thoughts.
Mistaking fantasy for reality
causes an experience of suffering;
Mind is poisoned by interpretation
of consciousness of form.
Dissolving figment and fantasy
