John Dear Quotes

• No matter where you are in the world the moon is never bigger than your thumb.

  John Dear

  Moon, Thumbs, World

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• The life of "peace" is both an inner journey toward a disarmed heart and a public journey toward a disarmed world. This difficult but beautiful journey gives infinite meaning and fulfillment to life itself because our lives become a gift for the whole human race. With peace as the beginning, middle, and end of life, life makes sense.

  John Dear

  Beautiful, Peace, Heart

  John Dear (2009). “Living Peace: A Spirituality of Contemplation and Action”, p.223, Image

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• Non-violence confronts systematic injustice with active love, but refuses to retaliate with further violence under any circumstances. In order to halt the vicious cycles of violence, it requires a willing acceptance of suffering and death rather than inflicting suffering or death on anyone else.

  John Dear

  Acceptance, Order, Suffering And Death

  John Dear (2009). “Living Peace: A Spirituality of Contemplation and Action”, p.82, Image

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• It's strange how knowledge changes perception.

  John Dear

  Perception, Strange

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