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Generosity, love, compassion, or devotion do not depend on a high IQ.

By Joseph Goldstein
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Joseph Goldstein is an American teacher of Buddhist insight meditation (vipassana) and lovingkindness meditation (metta). He and fellow teacher Sharon Salzberg cofounded the Insight Meditation Society. He studied Buddhist meditation with teachers in India, Burma, and Tibet and is the author of several books.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageI have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.

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Martin Luther King Jr.
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FindCenter Quotes ImageLove has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals. Just keep being friendly to that person . . . they react in many ways in the beginning . . . sometimes they’ll hate you a little more at that transition period, but just keep loving them.

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Martin Luther King Jr.
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FindCenter Quotes ImageBe the peace you wish to see in the world.

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Martin Luther King Jr.
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FindCenter Quotes ImageIf we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.

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Martin Luther King Jr.
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FindCenter Quotes ImageOccasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.

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Martin Luther King Jr.
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FindCenter Quotes ImageOne of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying. A persistent schizophrenia leaves so many of us tragically divided against ourselves.

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Martin Luther King Jr.
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FindCenter Quotes ImageNot everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.

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Martin Luther King Jr.
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FindCenter Quotes ImageAn individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

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Martin Luther King Jr.
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FindCenter Quotes ImageInjustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

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Martin Luther King Jr.
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FindCenter Quotes ImageIn the final analysis, love is not this sentimental something that we talk about. It’s not merely an emotional something. Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual.

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