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The Broken Barque
“I knew there was deforestation. I had no idea the extent of it,” she explains. “I had no idea the speed with which chimp numbers were decreasing. And I certainly had no idea about what went on in the medical research labs. So I left as an activist. I didn’t make a decision. I went as a scientist, I left as an activist. The first thing I had to do was make myself go into those labs because you’ve got to see it firsthand. And it’s been a long battle, but, finally, with others helping, we have got chimps out of medical research.” — Jane Goodall
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“One Tibetan monk… who had spent more than 18 years in a Chinese prison labor camp… told me that on a few occasions he really faced some danger. So I asked him, ‘What danger? What kind of danger?’, thinking he would tell me of Chinese torture and prison. He replied,
‘Many times I was in danger of losing compassion for the Chinese.’” — The Dalai Lama
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There are no ‘evil’ people in this world, only those who are absolutely certain that their vision and version of reality is singularly correct, and who are totally unwilling to open up to possibility, to meet others in vulnerable human intimacy and joyful doubt. Oh, the joy of not knowing!
‘Evil’ is simply tunnel vision, a painful constriction and rejection of the flowing wholeness of life, a…
