"Holiness is not a privilege of a few but a need for all."
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"The goods of Fortune, even such as they really are, still need taste to enjoy them. It is the enjoying no the possessing, that makes us happy."
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"Everything I need to know is revealed to me. Everything I need comes to me. All is well in my life."
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"It doesn't matter how old you are, there is a little child within who needs love and acceptance."
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"Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it. The true satisfaction is to come through, and see those whom one lives come through."
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"To reduce destructive emotions we need to strengthen constructive emotions. For example, to counter anger we cultivate love and compassion."
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"Love and compassion ... are the ultimate source of human happiness, and the need for them lies at the very core of our being."
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"Basically, the Buddhist attitude is that you should not accept certain things through sheer faith. And for that you need a skeptical attitude. Buddha himself made this clear to his followers. He said you should not accept those things I taught out of respect for me, but rather through investigation by yourself."
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"We need to teach people that the environment has a direct bearing on our own benefit."
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"By being inattentive to the needs of others, inevitably we end up harming them."
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"So our future is in our own hands. What greater free will do we need?"
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"In today's highly interdependent world, individuals and nations can no longer resolve many of their problems by themselves. We need one another. It is our collective and individual responsibility to protect and nurture the global family, to support its weaker members, and to preserve and tend to the environment in which we all live."
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"We discover that all human beings are just like us, so we are able to relate to them more easily. That generates a spirit of friendship in which there is less need to hide what we feel or what we are doing."
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"We all need basic human values rooted in trust and affection."
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"The need for love lies at the very foundation of human existence."
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"Humans are not machines-we are something more. We have feeling and experience. Material comforts are not sufficient to satisfy us. We need something deeper-human affection."
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"We don't need to respond with desperate violence."
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"Of course it should be pointed out that, though all salvation is through Jesus, we need not conclude that he cannot save those who have not explicitly accepted him in this life."
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"So that the one road for which we now need God's leadership most of all is a road God, in His own nature, has never walked. But suppose God became a man... He could surrender His will, suffer and die, because He was a man."
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"Most of us need the crutch at times; but of course it is idiotic to use the crutch when our own legs (our own loves, tastes, habits etc.) can do the journey on their own."
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