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We also self-inflict violence, because violence is our only way of relating to the world, to others and to ourselves.

We also self-inflict violence, because violence is our only way of relating to the world, to others and to ourselves.
– Bryant McGill

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  1. We see ourselves as self-sufficient, self-important, and self-sustaining. God sees us as dependent, self-centered, and self-deceived. – Billy Graham
  2. We have been trained by a culture of violence and we are all agents of passive violence. – Bryant McGill
  3. The fish does not know it is wet. America is immersed in violence. The violence is in our souls. The enemy is within. – Bryant McGill
  4. Violence can be a gift. Violence belongs to everyone. – Bryant McGill
  5. Governments are committed to preserving the myth of their monopoly on violence. Violence belongs to everyone. – Bryant McGill
  6. All violence demands reform, and all violence desperately begs to be healed. – Bryant McGill
  7. We can use meditation as a way to experiment with new ways of relating to ourselves, even our uncomfortable thoughts. – Sharon Salzberg
  8. We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict. – Jim Morrison
  9. Before hurting others, feel the pain you will inflict on others. – Debasish Mridha
  10. Deeply-rooted conditioning has perverted us. We ARE the culture of violence. We must look at ourselves. – Bryant McGill
  11. Deception and self-deception are intimately intertwined. We fool ourselves in order to fool others, and we fool others in order to fool ourselves. – Clancy Martin
  12. As long as we do violence to other animals, we’ll keep on doing violence to ourselves. – Paul Russell
  13. You are worthless to others if you don’t know your own self and self-worth. – Bryant McGill
  14. I’d like to say I’m not self-absorbed compared to others, but that’s hard to say since I’m far too self-absorbed to pry into others’ self-absorption. – Anonymous
  15. Nothing is easier than to get peaceful people to renounce violence, even when they provide no concrete ways to prevent violence from others. – Thomas Sowell
  16. To protect one’s own statement is the greatest form of violence. To impress upon others that his statement is correct is a form of violence itself. – Dada Bhagwan
  17. Shame, as an emotion, has a core meaning, in relating individuals to wider social groups and norms — real or imagined. – Peter N Stearns
  18. The purest definition of -œreligious- is: relating to or manifesting faithful devotion to an acknowledged ultimate reality. – Darrell Calkins
  19. Meditation is not about what’s happening, it is about how we’re relating to what’s happening. – Sharon Salzberg
  20. You have everything inside you, though you sometimes only recognise certain bits relating to the current stage of your path. – Jay Woodman
  21. Like someone excitedly relating a story, only to find the words petering out, the path gets narrower the further I go, the undergrowth taking over. – Haruki Murakami
  22. The passive and overt violence waged against the women and children of the world must end. – Bryant McGill
  23. The world teaches us to be self-sufficient, self-reliant, self-motivating. But anytime we put self before Savior, we’re in trouble – Toni Sorenson
  24. The most dangerous negativity comes from ourselves in the form of doubts, fears and unreasonable self-criticisms. – Bryant McGill
  25. Thoughts have the power,To change how you perceive the world around you,To inflict worry, or make peace abound too. – Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
  26. Because it takes more courage to heal the world’s hurts than to inflict them. – Ann Aguirre
  27. We deny the same love to others that we deny ourselves. We distort others in the same way we distort ourselves. – Vironika Tugaleva
  28. Imagine if we applied as much grace to others as we give ourselves & as much law to ourselves as we apply to others. – Orrin Woodward
  29. To forgive another person means you have first condemned them. When we condemn others we condemn ourselves. – Bryant McGill
  30. Loneliness is really a wonderful companion that can show us so much about ourselves and others. – Bryant McGill
  31. We must remember that we cannot change others, we can only change ourselves. – Bryant McGill
  32. What we do to others, we do to ourselves.. – Bryant McGill
  33. Self-belief is not self-centred. We can only fight effectively for others if we already believe in ourselves. – Carla H Krueger
  34. Excessive self-criticism is a bad habit and extraordinarily self-destructive. Don’t be your own worst enemy! – Bryant McGill
  35. Our culture of violence is an incubator, where our children are the crop of future techno-warrior killers. – Bryant McGill
  36. The pinnacle of human consciousness must be the rejection of unhealthy competition, war and violence. – Bryant McGill
  37. In a stress pressure-cooker like America, I believe we will see more and more shooting massacres. Violence is in our cultural DNA. – Bryant McGill
  38. Love heals violence and all its sources – Bryant McGill
  39. TV is a ????ographic cacophony of violence, death obsession, screams, gunfire and drama. You think it’s fine because you are damaged. – Bryant McGill
  40. Since the human mind is the primary weapon of the human being, it is also therefore the primary and most significant instrument of violence. – Bryant McGill

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