"The most powerful moral influence is example."
"We are free when we are not the slave of our impulses, but rather their master. Taking inward distance, we thus become the authors of our own dramas rather than characters in them."
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Source: Huston Smith, Jeffery Paine (2012). “The Huston Smith Reader”, p.91, Univ of California Press
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