Quotes
One who can define kindness only as the absence of cruelty has surely not begun to understand the nature of either.
p. 154
Sweetgrass is a teacher of healing, a symbol of kindness and compassion.
p. 336
“Most people are good,” says Jim. “But not when they’re afraid.”
p. 138
When people think your days are numbered, they're really very nice to you. It's only when you're trying to get on in the world that they bring their claws out.
"I suspect that God is what you do, not what or who you believe in. When you do right, Jaxie, when you make good - well, then you are an instrument of God. Then you are joined to the divine, to the life force, to life itself. That's what I believe. That's what I hope for. And it's what I have missed. Think of it this way. When somebody does me a kindness, it enlarges me, adds to my life, you see? And not only mine - it adds to all life."
p. 233
His wife was a good woman, and he understood that. But he remembered what the minister at Margaret River used to say - the good are fierce.
p. 150
Angels aren't pretty pictures in old holy books, just like monsters aren't ugly pictures. It's all just people, doing hard things or doing bad things.”
Humans are basically good. That's why it takes so much training to march march march kill kill kill kill. ("Earth" p269)
He did too have a philosophy of life: Do the right thing by whoever crosses your path. Those coincidental people are your people. (p223)
We are never so poor that we cannot bless another human being, are we? So it is that every evil, whether moral or material, results in good. You'll see. (p384)
"I think you'll find ordinary people are nicer than you give them credit for being"
p. 172
Most people do the best they can.
p. 225
