"The fundamentalists of every faith remain blind to……" — David James Duncan
"The fundamentalists of every faith remain blind to the truth that the “sigh within the prayer is the same in the heart of the Christian, the Muslim, and the Jew.” I have seen this unity with my eyes, heard it with my ears, felt it with all my being."
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David James Duncan
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28 Quotes by David James Duncan
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Then in October, Indian Summer, the air turned so soft, the sunlight so fragile, and each day's loveliness so poignantly…
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I'd trapped myself in a script.... But to be scripted at all is to be prepackaged, programmed, pinned to a…
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And into the brown paper bag of my heart, Eddy slipped a smile.
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Is a lifelong student of the world's wisdom literature, it is my duty to inform students that ridding the world…
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The principles that will save Earth's life are the same principles that save the living souls of humans: ineluctable spiritual…
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You, me, & your papa are 3 of the tiny percentage of souls on this miserable earth who've figured out…
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When experience flies into realms that language cannot touch, honesty demands beyond-language.
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My books are inert as cordwood till a readers imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life.
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Ecosystems are holy. The word "environmental" is a deadly compromise itself. It's a policy word that lives only in the…
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The environment, what surrounds you, is so alive and delightful and complex.
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We hear nothing so clearly as what comes out of silence.
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Anyone too undisciplined, too self-righteous or too self-centered to live in the world as it is has a tendency to…
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