When you really know somebody you can't hate them Or maybe it's just that you can't really know them until you stop hating them Is that a circular paradox? Dom Cristao says that most truth can only be expressed in circular paradoxes I don't think it has anything to do with truth, it's just cause and effect. We can never sort them out. Science refuses to admit any cause except the first cause - knock down one domino, the one next to it also falls. But when it comes to human beings, the only type of cause that matters is the final cause, the purpose. What a person had in mind. Once you know what people really want, you can't hate them anymore. You can fear them, but you can't hate them, because you can always find the same desires in your own heart.

I'm not one to despise other people for their sins. I haven't found one yet, that I didn't say to myself, I've done worse than this

As long as you keep getting born, it's ok to die sometimes

Your dream is a good one. It's the dream of every living creature. The desire that is the very root of life itself: to grow until all the space you can see is …

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

I rarely saw them as individuals. It was always a huge mass...they were naked, packed together, running, being driven with whips.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and unde…