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“Meditation is the ultimate selfless act, because when you meditate you are sacrificing your puny personality for the universal reality.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“The peculiar doctrine of Christianity is that of a universal sacrifice and perpetual propitiation.”

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Book:The Life of Samuel Johnson

Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson

“The "developed" nations had given to the "free market" the status of a god, and were sacrificing to it their farmers, farmlands, and communities, their forests, wetlands, and prairies, their ecosystems and watersheds. They had accepted universal pollution and global warming as normal costs of doing business.”

Source: In the Presence of Fear: Three Essays for a Changed World

“Fitzcarraldo is a mad dreamer. He's willing to sacrifice everything in order to make his vision of an opera house. That metaphor of pulling the boat over the mountain is so integral to anyone making any creative effort. It's that universal Sisyphean struggle.”

Order House Effort Vision Struggle Creative Sacrifice Willing Mountain Universal Mad Metaphor Boat Dreamer Opera Pulling Opera House

Author:Sam Pressman

“The singularity of Islam is its universality. As American citizens and as Muslims, you need to show there is something specific, namely our moral singularity. We believe there is one God and this one God is pushing us to reach universal values by liberating ourselves from our ego and by serving humanity. We must be involved in this by all means necessary, in a nonviolent way, through the legal, media, economic and cultural systems. We cannot achieve this if there is no courage, if we are not ready to sacrifice.”

“The Christian, the Mohammedan, the Jew - their emphasis is on the second: to die as soon as possible, to surrender to God. Prayer is their way. Prayer means dying, dying and disappearing as a person, becoming part of the universal, a surrender, a trust in God. The whole emphasis is on how to surrender your ego, sacrifice your ego, at the altar of the divine.”

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Author:Rajneesh