As a lifelong student of the worldโs wisdom literature, it is my duty to inform students that โridding the world of evilโ is a goal very different from any recommended by Jesus, Buddha, or Muhammad, though not so different from some recommended by the Josephs Stalin and McCarthy and by Mao Tse Tung.
David James DuncanThe bad thing about falling into pieces is that it hurts. The good thing about it is that once you're lying there in shards you've got nothing left to protect, and so have no reason not to be honest
David James DuncanThe fundamentalists of every faith remain blind to the truth that the โsigh within the prayer is the same in the heart of the Christian, the Muslim, and the Jew.โ I have seen this unity with my eyes, heard it with my ears, felt it with all my being.
David James Duncan--I truly and deeply wanted to kill him. And I believe I could have done it, with nothing but my hands. But all of a sudden, out of nowhere, Peter had an arm around me. "Let it go, Kade," he was whispering very gently, though his arm was nearly crushing me. "Open your fists," he said, "and let go of the coals.
David James Duncan