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No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it. — Albert Einstein

Ways people learn 10% of what we read 20% of what we hear 30% of what we see visually 50% of what we see and hear 70% of what we discuss with others 80% of what we discover for ourselves 95% of what we teach to someone else — author unknown

May God’s hand cast a shadow over the enemy of thine spirit. . . . Let cold winds blow on the backs of those who seek thine diminution. . . . May tormenting dreams visit their sleep and trouble their wakefulness. . . . Let resourcefulness sing her song in the morning and righteousness follow in kind in the evensong. . . . May your rest be deep in the bosom on the peace that passes understanding. . . . May you gird up your loins with laughter and put on the vestment of friendship which even now surrounds you like angels of mercy who will carry you through the dark passage into the light of a new day. — author unknown

God’s love sets me free to enter into community with other people—even when the community is a very limited one and is not the total communion that my heart desires. Only when I live in communion with God can I live in a community that is not perfect. Only then can I love the other person and create a space in which we might be quite distant or very close, but we can still allow something new to be born—a child, friendship, joy, community, a space where strangers and guests can be received. — Henri Nouwen

No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up. — Lily Tomlin

Violence, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn once observed, finds refuge in falsehood, even as falsehood is supported by violence. "Anyone who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle." (Solzhenitsyn's 1972 Nobel Prize acceptance speech) A practical rule can be deduced. Where there is violence, look for falsehood; where there is falsehood, look for violence. If Solzhenitsyn is correct, they go together. — George Hunsinger

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. — Voltaire

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. — Joseph Campbell

Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness. . . . Disobedience to be civil implies discipline, thought, care, attention. . . . Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as cooperation with good. . . . Nonviolent action without the cooperation of the heart and the head cannot produce the intended result. — Mohandas Gandhi

Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck—but, most of all, endurance. — James Baldwin