[Buddha-l] Fwd: PEACE Quote

[Richard Hayes]

My Inner Quaker loves getting these daily quotes on peace. Today's quote, by 
Will Rogers, amuses me in its own right, but it also reminds me of my 
mother's father (who insisted that he was my grandfather), who lived in a 
small apartment in Albuquerque with only a few sticks of simple furniture 
that included a small table with a black and white photograph of Will Rogers 
on it. The photo of Will Rogers was the only religious icon to which I was 
exposed as a child. This particular grandfather was one of the most gentle 
and non-judgmental people I have ever known, proving to my satisfaction that 
the absence of religion is a good formula for the cultivation of virtue. 
(That conviction was challenged by the discovery that my grandfather, who 
never darkened the door of a church in his adult life, was a 32nd-degree 
Freemason and thus was hardly without religion.)

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Subject: PEACE Quote
Date: Friday 22 June 2007 08:26
From: Daily Peace Quote <peacequotes at livingcompassion.org>
To: Richard Hayes <rhayes at unm.edu>

So live that you wouldn't mind selling the family parrot to the town gossip.
- Will Rogers

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