Today's Thoughts

[yelladawg]

As free human beings we can use our unique intelligence to try to understand ourselves and our world. But if we are prevented from using our creative potential, we are deprived of one of the basic characteristics of a human being.

-His Holiness the Dalai Lama
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Death is experienced only once, but he who fears it dies each minute.

- Rubin, Sefer HaMiddot

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I heard the Prophet narrate the story of another Prophet before him, whose people beat him and caused him to bleed. Even as he wiped the blood off his face he said, "Lord, forgive them for they know not what they do!"

-Reported by Nayeem bin Mas'ud, Sahih al-Bukhari

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