“It's a very complicated matter to become enlightened. If it happens to a person without a teacher in this lifetime, you can bet their boots, they've had about a thousand teachers in their last thousand lives because it's a very complicated thing to do.” IfsPersonsMatterHappensLastsTeacherThousandEnlightenmentLifetimeComplicatedThings To DoEnlightenedBootsComplicated Things Author:Frederick Lenz
“I will make an attempt to attain freedom, the youthful soul says to itself; and is it to be hindered in this by the fact that two nations happen to hate and fight one another, or that two continents are separated by an ocean, or that all around it a religion is taught with did not yet exist a couple of thousand years ago. All that is not you, it says to itself.” YearsTwoSoulFactsHappensHateFightingNationsTaughtCoupleThousandOceanYears AgoCrossesBridgesStreamsContinentsThousand YearsConstructsTwo Nations Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“It does happen, of course, that the priesthood has been on bad terms with womankind for some three thousand years. You see, Buddhism teaches that women are evil. Fiends. Messengers of hell. I've spent years immersed in the scriptures, so it's no accident that you and I fight all the time.” YearsDoeHas BeensHappensFightingThreeCoursesEvilTermTeachHellBuddhismThousandAccidentsScriptureThousand YearsMessengersPriesthood Book:Musashi Source: Musashi
“The Persian's mind, like his illuminated manuscripts, does not deal in perspective: two thousand years, if he happens to know anything about them, are as exciting as the day before yesterday.” IfsKnowsYearsMindDoeTwoHappensDealsPerspectiveThousandExcitingYesterdayThousand YearsManuscriptsPersian Book:The Journey's Echo: Selections Source: The Journey's Echo: Selections
“Someone has asked me to paint Biblical pictures, and I say no, I'll not paint something that we know nothing about, might just as well paint something that will happen two thousand years hence.” KnowsYearsWellsTwoMightHappensThousandBiblePaintBiblicalThousand Years Author:Grandma Moses
“The modification of prejudice takes a long time, and occurs as the result of a thousand things that happen to the prejudiced person - things he sees and hears and reads, people he talks to, and places he visits. Any given reformer must be content to take a small and obscure place in a chain of cumulative pressures.” PeoplePersonsLongHappensGivenResultsThousandLong TimePrejudicePressureChainsObscureReformersModificationCumulative Book:Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro Source: Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro