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Nature And Soul
“I have been confronted with many difficulties throughout the course of my life, and my country is going through a critical period. But I laugh often, and my laughter is contagious. When people ask me how I find the strength to laugh now, I reply that I am a professional laugher.”
— His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama
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“I know it’s so terribly unlikely, but if everyone would acknowledge the loss and the grief that is under the surface of conflict and hatred and division, there would be a melting of all that polarizes and denies and rejects, there would be a falling into the depths of humanity, where sorrow and grief and tears can wash away those things that are deadly and need to be relinquished so that we can all live, so that we could all realize how much we are all in this together, not in some naive way, but in the old way of understanding that we’re all walking the road of life and death. And despite all the denial, anytime we’re in touch with our own souls, we can feel not just our own pain, but the suffering of others. And it’s that shared pain that makes us human.”
— Michael Meade
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“I could see that the white man did not care for each other the way our people did…They would take everything from each other if they could…some…had more of everything than they could use, while crowds…
