America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam.

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To remain stable is to refrain from trying to separate yourself from a pain because you know that you cannot. Running away from fear is fear, fighting pain is pain, trying to be brave is being scared. If the mind is in pain, the mind is pain. The thinker has no other form than his thought. There is no escape. ― Alan Wilson Watts

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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion. ― Alan Watts

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Because there was a hunger in me to see everything and do everything. I wanted to be everyone I saw. I wasn't enough for me. Can you understand that? ― Sidney Sheldon

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When I was growing up I always wanted to be someone. Now I realize I should have been more specific. ― Lily Tomlin

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The poem, the song, the picture, is only water drawn from the well of the people, and it should be given back to them in a cup of beauty so that they may drink - and in drinking understand themselves.

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A person hears only what they understand. ― Johann wolfgang von Goethe

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Understand one single day fully, so you can love every night.

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Own your happiness and let people understand that they have to own theirs. If you make it your job to make people happy, you have made it your job to keep people happy. ― Saji Ijiyemi

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If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself. — Albert Einstein

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