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@@ -2695,14 +2695,6 @@ it's a depression when you lose yours.
 Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
   -- Harry S. Truman, 1959
 ~
-A little more moderation would be good.  Of course,
-my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
-  -- Donald Trump, in "Time", 16 January 1989
-~
-I like thinking big.  If you're going to be thinking
-anything, you might as well think big.
-  -- Donald Trump, in "Time", 16 January 1989
-~
 The more laws and order are made prominent,
 the more thieves and robbers there will be.
   -- Lao Tsu
@@ -43864,3 +43856,39 @@ is an extension of one's penis, then that is not a very good reason to pick up
 a knife; one should probably put the knife right back down in those degenerate
 (in the mathematical sense) cases.  #WhatILearnedFromTheBoyScouts
   -- fred t. hamster
+~
+Full of trust you left home,
+and soon learned to walk the Path--
+making yourself a friend to everyone
+and making everyone a friend.
+
+When the whole world is your friend,
+fear will find no place to call home.
+
+And when you make the mind your friend,
+you'll know what trust 
+really means.
+
+Listen.
+
+I have followed this Path of friendship to its end.
+And I can say with absolute certainty--
+it will lead you home.
+
+  -- from "The First Free Women: Poems of the Early Buddhist Nuns",
+     by Matty Weingast
+~
+If we are honest with ourselves, we know from our own experience that the more
+we try to find solutions to our problems through thinking about them, the more
+we start going around in circles, sometimes interminably.  Buddhism counsels
+us to resist being abused by our conflicting emotions and to let go of
+excessive thinking.  Emotions can be expressed in an unhealthy, self-
+destructive manner or in a healthy and constructive fashion.  Similarly, we
+can think in a self-destructive, confused way, which reinforces our negative
+habits, or we can think in a constructive way.  Buddhism emphasizes that
+overindulgence in conflicting emotions and distorted forms of thinking only
+reinforces our old habits, which solidifies our karmic tendencies even
+further.
+  -- Traleg Kyabgon, from "Mind at Ease: Self-Liberation through Mahamudra
+      Meditation", published by Shambhala Publications
+