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“. . . the fools of this world prefer to look for sages far away. They don't believe that the wisdom of their own mind is the sage . . . the sutras say, "Mind is the teaching." But people of no understanding don't believe in their own mind or that by understanding this teaching they can become a sage. They prefer to look for distant knowledge and long for things in space, buddha-images, light, incense, and colors. They fall prey to falsehood and lose their minds to insanity.”

People World Mind Believe Looks Long Light Fall Belief Understanding Loses Space Teaching This World Color Fool Don't Believe Insanity Far Away Falsehood Sage Prey Incense

Author:Bodhidharma

“Antiessentialist thinking forces us to view the world differently. We must accept shadings and continua as fundamental. We lose criteria for judgment by comparison to some ideal: short people, retarded people, people of other beliefs, colors, and religions are people of full status.”

People Thinking World Belief Force Loses Views Accepting Color Judgment Ideals Fundamentals Comparison Criteria Retarded Short People

Book:The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History

Source: The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History

“And then God gave me insight: this was winter. It would end, in time, but not by my own doing. My responsibility was simply to know the season, and match my actions and inactions to it. It was to learn the slow hard discipline of waiting. It was my season to believe in spite of-to believe in the absence of evidence or emotion, when there's nothing, no bud, no color, no light, no birdsong, to validate belief. It was my time to walk without sight.”

Knows Believe Ends Hard Light Action Belief Waiting My Own Walks Emotion Responsibility Color Discipline Evidence Seasons Sight Winter Insight Absence My Time Spite Inaction Bud Birdsong

Author:Mark Buchanan

“Justice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow, saying, 'His color is not mine,' or 'His beliefs are strange and different,' in that moment he betrays America, though his forebears created this nation.”

Different Moments America Remember Belief Nations Justice Mines Strange Color Citizens Fellows Deny That Moment Betray

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“It makes me furious to hear haters of all skin colors - especially Christian, Jewish, and Muslim fundamentalists - deride other people because of their different beliefs and lifestyles.”

People Different Christian Belief Color Skins Lifestyle Furious Skin Color Different Beliefs

Author:Rita Dove

“Everyone is different: different shapes, sizes, colors, beliefs, personalities, and you have to celebrate those differences.”

Different Belief Differences Color Personality Shapes Size Celebrate Everyone Is Different

Author:Kelly Clarkson

“My life is mine and I form it. Tell yourself this often. Create your own life now, using your beliefs as an artist uses color.”

Use Form Life Is Artist Belief Mines Color

Author:Seth

“When you teach a man to hate and fear his brother, when you teach that he is a lesser man because of his color or his beliefs or the policies he pursues, when you teach that those who differ from you threaten your freedom or your job or your family, then you also learn to confront others not as fellow citizens but as enemies...”

Men Home Jobs Hate Belief Enemy Teach Policy Color Brother Citizens Fellows Pursue Our Family Bigotry Threatening Your Freedom

Author:Robert Kennedy

“I know 100 percent what it's like to have people tell you that you can't hold an office because of your color, and to have people vote based on that belief.”

People Knows Belief Color Office Percent Vote

Author:Artur Davis

“We're one race. No matter our religion, beliefs, mother tongue, or skin color.”

Matter Mother Belief Race Color Skins Tongue Skin Color Mother Tongue

Author:Claudia Black

“For Muslims, the source of everything we do is based in the belief that there is one God, and this one God is revealing to us there is one humanity with equal dignity for each, beyond faith, color and social status. Whatever your status, color, background or religion, you have the same dignity.”

Humanity Belief Social Color Source Equal Dignity Backgrounds Revealing Social Status

Author:Tariq Ramadan