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Bo Lozoff

(1947–2012) Writer United States

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Bo Lozoff was a writer from the United States, best known for Corrections, peacemaking, and restorative justice.

Quick Facts About Bo Lozoff

Born: January 10, 1947
Died: November 30, 2012
Nationality: United States
Profession: Writer
Notable works: Corrections, peacemaking, and restorative justice

About Bo Lozoff

Bo Lozoff was an American writer and interfaith humanitarian. He co-founded several nonprofits, including the interfaith Human Kindness Foundation and its subsidiary Prison-Ashram Project, Carolina Biodiesel, and Kindness House. Many of Lozoff's nonprofits aimed to improve the lives of prisoners and the previously incarcerated.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Bo Lozoff

Do you want a world with . . . more joy and happiness? Then find your own joy and happiness and contribute…

Happiness

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Meditation is simply seeing reality and acknowledging it with bare honesty.

Honesty

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You may study with the highest teachers, but you will find no one but yourself teaching you. You may travel the world…

Cells

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This is the first step toward understanding the process of real, lasting change: simply knowing with certainty that you can do whatever…

Can do

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In some respects, if I had to choose just one (virtue on the spiritual path), I'd feel safest with a sense of…

Dust

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Without loving and caring for others, most of us stand little chance of communing with God/the Divine Wisdom, no matter how many…

Caring

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I could characterize nearly any spiritual practice as simply this: identify and quit, identify and quit, identify and quit. Identify the myriad…

Dawn

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In the midst of global crises such as pollution, wars and famine, kindness may be too easily dismissed as a 'soft' issue,…

Adversity

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The cause of all our personal problems and nearly all the problems of the world can be summed up in a single…

Causes

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If I am practicing spiritual poverty, which says that I own nothing, then the problems aren't mine and neither are the energy…

Better place

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Don't overlook the significance of your smallest opportunities for civilized behavior throughout each day. The future has no bigger moments than we…

Acts of kindness

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Little by little deep inside us, the diamond shines, the eyes open, the dawn rises, we become what we already are.

Dawn

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Like a child standing in a beautiful park with his eyes shut tight, there's no need to imagine trees, flowers, deer, birds,…

Beautiful

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We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment.

Degrees

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Until we reflect basic kindness in everything we do, our political gestures will be fleeting and fragile. Simple kindness may be the…

Care

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The gap between our sincere values and our actual behavior is the source of all self-hatred.

Behavior

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We're all doing time. As soon as we get born, we find ourselves assigned to one little body, one set of desires…

Body

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Life, like any other exciting story, is bound to have painful and scary parts, boring and depressing parts, but it's a brilliant…

Boring

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