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Keeping young people away from Shakespeare is like removing a link to their humanness.
If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our lost loves, our lost youth, our lost health, our lost capacities. This is part of our humanness, part of the expression of our love for life.
Anyone determined to find another person or group inferior can always find whole lists of grounds that demonstrate inferiority because we are all inferior to the ideals of humanness we have erected.
I've learned that to expose yourself, to reveal yourself is a test of your humanness.
I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn't want to take the humanness out of the political arena.
No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.
When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost.
The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.
Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.
