#avery

Devote the mind to confusion and we know only too well, if we´re honest, that it will become a dark master of confusion, adept in its addictions, subtle and perversely supple in its slaveries. Devote it in meditation to the task of freeing itself from illusion, and we will find that, with time, patience, discipline, and the right training, our mind will begin to unknot itself and know its essential bliss and clarity. ↗

— Sogyal Rinpoche

#meditation #spirituality #slavery

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#fearlessness #morality #spiritual

I like to call a spade a spade in politics and in everything else. That's why the zionists and the americans... The top officials hate Saddam Hussein. The White House is lying once again. He's a liar. He's the world's number one liar. He said there were chemical weapons in Iraq, and that Iraq is connected with terrorism. Later he declared: 'We didn't find any of this in Iraq.' What I want to say is that he also declared that what Saddam Hussein says is not true... This is defamation of your president of thirty five years. ↗

— Saddam Hussein

#resistance #truth #iraq

There is a story which is not being told strongly enough of the Afghan employees of the UN inside the country who are saving hundreds of thousands of lives everyday by their bravery and nobody talks of them. ↗

— Lakhdar Brahimi

#being #body talks #bravery #country #employees

In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense. ↗

— Sallust

#bravery #cowards #defense #most #rampart

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger. ↗

— Philip Sidney

#bravery #danger #fuller #in the beginning #knight

She'd also called me brave...unless she was talking to the catfish. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#fish #humor #humor

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion. ↗

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#because #bottom #bravery #courage #cowardice

Since the days of slavery, if you were a good singer or dancer, it was your job to perform for the master after dinner. ↗

— Spike Lee

#dancer #days #dinner #good #job

Slavery is nothing to joke about. The history of this nation's involvement with slavery is nothing to pass off in a joke. ↗

— Doug Wilder

#history #involvement #joke #nation #nothing