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[Catherine Walther]

Thanks and so true no matter who said it.  Catherine

On Wed, 3 Apr 2024 at 13:27, Dean Riley via Sundaycommunity <
sundaycommunity at lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:

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> I saw the first image above on Facebook (the billboard), and when I
> researched the quote, I found the second image with the Dalai Lama. I began
> wondering about the veracity of the quote. I re-searched little further,
> and found the following on Tumblr by Alex Knapp… I thought I’d share the
> images above and the quote below with the Sunday Community.
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> Blessings!
>
> Dean.
>
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> …(This is) a quote attributed to the Dalai Lama where he supposedly says,
> "The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately
> needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of
> every kind."
>
> You might think, "Hm, that's a weird thing for a Buddhist Monk to say."
> And you'd be right!
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> This quote is actually from environmental scientist David Orr's book
> Ecological Literacy: Educating Our Children for a Sustainable World. And
> it's not quite a correct quote, either. The real quote is:
>
> "The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people.
> But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers,
> storytellers, and lovers of every kind. It needs people who live well in
> their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to
> make the world habitable and humane. And these qualities have little to do
> with success as we have defined it."
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