Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don’t see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence. Eckhart Tolle
In terms of sex between same-sex partners, the objection that "the parts don't fit" doesn’t make sense on even the most logical level. If the parts didn't work together, frankly, people wouldn't be putting them together.
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Kathy Baldock
We look at each other a second. " I'm tired of the rules, " I say. Aibileen chuckles and looks out the window. I realise how thin this revelation must sound to her.
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Kathryn Stockett
He knew that prejudice was a necessary part of the weak spirit of some men.
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Dan Groat
I know you despise me; allow me to say, it is because you do not understand me.
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Elizabeth Gaskell
It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed themselves. It is more difficult to distance ourselves from our own beliefs so that we can dispassionately search for prejudices among them.
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Peter Singer
More Quotes By Eckhart Tolle
To love is to recognize yourself in another.
The past has no power over the present moment.
Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be.
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you will ever have.
What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your attention? A dash, one or two inches long, between the date of birth and date of death on your gravestone.
