140/365 - The Last Page (Paul Sweeney)

“You know you've read a Good Book 

when you turn the Last Page 

and feel a little as if you have Lost a Friend.” 

- Paul Sweeney

139/365 - The Silence of our Friends (Martin Luther King Jr.)

“In the End, 

we will remember not the words of our enemies, 

but the silence of our friends.” 

Martin Luther King Jr.

138/365 - It's Indifference (Elie Wiesel)

“The opposite of Love is not Hate, 

it's Indifference. 

The opposite of Art is not Ugliness,

it's Indifference.

The opposite of Faith is not Heresy, 

it's Indifference. 

And the opposite of Life is not Death, 

it's Indifference.” 

- Elie Wiesel

(Nobel Peace Prize Winner of 1986)

137/365 - The Karma of your Soul (Gary Zukav)

"You are the product of the Karma of your Soul.

The dispositions, aptitudes and attitudes that you were born with serve the learning of your soul.  As your soul learns the lessons that it must learn to balance its energy, those characteristics become unnecessary, and are replaced by others.  This is how you grow.  As you come to realise, for example, that anger leads nowhere, your anger begins to disappear and you move into a more integrated and mature orientation toward your experiences.  What once angered you now brings forth different responses.

Until you become aware of the effects of your anger, you continue to be an angry person.  If you do not reach this awareness by the time you return home, your soul will continue this lesson through the experiences of another lifetime.  It will incarnate another personality with aspects that are similar to your own.  What is not learned in each lifetime is carried over into other lifetimes, along with new lessons that arise for the soul to learn, new karmic obligations that result from the responses of its personality to the situations that it encounters.  The lessons that the soul has learned also are brought forward into other lifetimes, and this is how the soul evolves.  Personalities mature in time, and the soul evolves in eternity."  - Gary Zukav (The Seat of the Soul)

136/365 - At this Time and this Place (Azar Nafisi)

 

“You get a strange feeling when you're about to leave a place, 

I told him, 

like you'll not only miss the people you love 

but you'll miss the person you are now,

at this time and this place, 

because you'll never be this way ever again.” 

 

Azar Nafisi

(Reading Lolita in Tehran) 

135/365 - Secret Destinations (Martin Buber)

“All Journeys have Secret Destinations 

of which the Traveler is unaware.” 

 

- Martin Buber

134/365 - What we Pretend to Be (Kurt Vonnegut)

“We Are what we Pretend to Be, 

so we must be Careful about what we pretend to be.” 

 

- Kurt Vonnegut

(Mother Night)