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“Those are the most important stories to share. You can use that strength to pave a path for others to follow along behind.”

“He was glazed with fatigue. He had been bitten, cut, gone without rest, had assaulted the Cliffs of Insanity, had saved and taken lives. He had risked his world, and now it was walking away from him, hand in hand with a ruffian prince.”

“Slower, he walked along in his thoughts and asked himself: “But what is this, what you have sought to learn from teachings and from teachers, and what they, who have taught you much, were still unable to teach you?” And he found: “It was the self, the purpose and essence of which I sought to learn. It was the self, I wanted to free myself from, which I sought to overcome. But I was not able to overcome it, could only deceive it, could only flee from it, only hide from it. Truly, no thing in this world has kept my thoughts thus busy, as this my very own self, this mystery of me being alive, of me being one and being separated and isolated from all others, of me being Siddhartha! And there is no thing in this world I know less about than about me, about Siddhartha!”″

“And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother’s womb, who never had walked: the same heard Paul speak: who steadfastly beholding him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed, said with a loud voice, Stand upright on your feet. And he leaped and walked. Acts 14:8-10 Paul must have preached the gospel of healing, because the lame man received faith to be healed while listening to Paul’s message.”

“Prison agrees with me. There’s no hypocrisy here. Kill or be killed, and everybody knows it.”

Once upon a time there lived a bear with many friends, but he was restless. Surely there is more to life than eating honey and berries, and sleeping the winter away! It’s time to expand my horizons, he thought. So one day, Da Bear declares “this is the day” and begins his journey up the mountain in search of adventure and - “to see what he could see,” of course. But beware! What’s lurking over there? Come along and see what Da Bear and his animal buddies discover!

“Nobody escapes being wounded. We all are wounded people, whether physically, emotionally, mentally, or spiritually.”

“You mustn’t be afraid of him. He is our brother Daniel come home. When he milks you, you must be good and stand still. See how big and strong he is. He will take care of us and keep us safe.”

“He is a marvel -- man is! I would I knew who invented him.”

“There’s no such thing as neutral education. Education either functions as an instrument to bring about conformity or freedom.”