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Peace is a Fire
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Peace is a Fire

A Collection of Writings and Sayings
By Sangharakshita
ISBN 9781-904766-84-4
Read by Subhadra
Compiled by Ananda
Introduction by Ananda
Published by Windhorse Publications,1995
A collection of aphorisms, teachings and poems intended as inspiration for those who are ready to have their views challenged and their minds expanded. The topics range from art and literature, through sex and relationships, to philosophy and religion.

An extract from Peace is a Fire

What every living thing, what every living being, wants to do most of all is to fulfill the law of its own being, and the law of our being is - as it is the law of the being of every living thing - that we should develop.
The tragedy is not that we don't get what we want, but that we do get what we want, and then we are stuck with it, and very often we find that it's not what we wanted at all.

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