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“When confronted by conflict and confusion, another practice is to take a deep breath, pause and ask: 'Where is the gift in this?”

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Author:Diane Dreher

“But to practice leadership, you need to accept that you are in the business of generating chaos, confusion, and conflict”

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Book:The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World

Source: The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World

“Spirituality is nothing more than the art of paying attention. When I give my whole heart and mind to a task such as singing - life's worry, suffering, or conflicts don't exist in that moment. Additionally, singing is about breath work, which is the most essential practice to living a conscious & healthy life.”

“Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.”

“Talent and genius operate outside the rules, and theory conflicts with practice.”

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Book:On War

Source: On War

“We know that Muhammad waged war against the Qurayshi tribe, his own tribe, and it's from that conflict that much of the concept of jihad and verses that ISIS now uses to justify beheadings come from. A young man just told me that he went back and read this carefully [and saw] the prophet and his people were fighting the Quraysh because they were not allowing the prophet and his people to practice their religion.”

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Author:Rukmini Maria Callimachi

“None of us, irrespective of our sexual preference and/or practice, imagine that we can have an intimate relationship with a partner and always have seamless harmony. Indeed, most of us assume that once the “honeymoon” period is over differences will emerge and conflicts will happen. Positively, we also assume that we will be “safe“ in those moments; that even if voices are raised and emotions expressed are intense, there will not be and should not be any abuse or any reason to be unsafe, and that the will to connect and communicate will prevail.”

Source: Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom

“To practice the process of conflict resolution, we must completely abandon the goal of getting people to do what we want.”

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Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg

“Peace, or freedom from conflict, is the absolute core of happiness. It is in learning to watch our sense of peace that we avoid unhappiness. All forms of misery are heralded by a frame of mind that must become immediately recognizable if we are ever to gain mastery in happiness...Take the time to look in your heart and be clear. Walk through life being clear. Practice doing each thing in peace.”

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Author:Hugh Prather

“The resolution of revolutions is selection by conflict within the scientific community of the fittest way to practice future science. The net result of a sequence of such revolutionary selections, separated by periods of normal research, is the wonderfully adapted set of instruments we call modern scientific knowledge.”

Source: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition

“Let me say that I don't see any conflict between science and religion. I go to church as many other scientists do. I share with most religious people a sense of mystery and wonder at the universe and I want to participate in religious ritual and practices because they're something that all humans can share.”

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Author:Martin Rees