“When all the world is filled with evil, transform adversity into the path of enlightenment.”
Chekawa Yeshe Dorje (1102–1176) Buddhist meditation master
Seven Points of Mind Training
“The competitive nation-state system, with all its capacity for good and evil, is spreading in the Third World and is transforming that world.”
Source: The Political Economy of International Relations (1987), Chapter Seven, Dependence And Economic Development, p. 304
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