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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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Martin Luther King Jr.
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FindCenter Quotes ImageLife’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’

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