“In the past we used to think of poverty in absolute terms - meaning straightforward material deprivation... We need to think of poverty in relative terms - the fact that some people lack those things which others in society take for granted.” PeopleThinkingNeedsFactsPastUsedTermPovertyMaterialsAbsolutesGrantedRelativeStraightforwardDeprivation Author:David Cameron
“No doubt, God alone has become all these objects, animate and inanimate, but in the relative world all beings act and suffer according to their past Karma and innate tendencies.” WorldPastSufferingDoubtObjectsKarmaTendenciesNo DoubtRelativeInnate Author:Sarada Devi
“Our past affects us, our present affects us, and even our future can affect us. We live in the relative world of time and space.” WorldPastScienceSpaceBuddhismOur FutureRelativeOur PastTime And Space Author:Frederick Lenz