{"quotes":[{"text":"Many fall into the trap of championing the exact theology of a saint from the past, which can have errors and imbalances, and then they perpetuate these problems into the modern Christian world. Such believers are sadly being guided more by their zeal and reading of past saints than by their personal walk with the Lord and the guidance of the Spirit of God in their lives.","author":"Greg Gordon","tags":["modern-world","problems"],"id":2707,"author_id":"Greg+Gordon"},{"text":"Mental illness is a bigger problem than obesity and cardiovascular diseases in the modern western world but still we pay no homage to the philosophy of watching what we watch. We only worry about what we put in the body in the form of food and care very little, if at all, with what we consume in our minds.","author":"Evan Sutter","tags":["happiness","media","mental-illness","mindfulness","modern-world","philosophy","society","solitude"],"id":15214,"author_id":"Evan+Sutter"},{"text":"With approximately 50% of the USA population on prescription drugs and 10% on anti-depressants, it is clear that things are going seriously wrong with human health in the modern world.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["depressant","depression","depression","health","human","human-development","humanity","humanity-and-society","modern","modern-life","modern-society","modern-times","modern-world","population","prescription","prescription-drugs","prescription-medicines","usa","world"],"id":46709,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"To be healthy in modern society, you must adopt the behaviors of an astronaut!","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["adopt","astronaut","astronauts","behavior","behavioral-change","behavioral-psychology","behaviour","behavioural-psychology","healthy","healthy-habits","healthy-lifestyle","healthy-living","modern","modern-life","modern-society","modern-times","modern-world"],"id":51361,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"…suffering can be a work of art. It can be made of buried and rising things, helpless and undiscovered, song of frustrated want, silence after desire. It can be the test of the self falling short, constrained, distorted, disturbed or rebuffed, the vacuum left by longing, call without an answer.","author":"Lydia Millet","tags":["art","longing","modern-world","oppenheimer","suffering"],"id":103613,"author_id":"Lydia+Millet"},{"text":"In this modern world it is easy to be complex but difficult to be simple. At least try to keep your mind simple.","author":"Debasish Mridha","tags":["be-simple","debasish-mridha","debasish-mridha-md","easy-to-be-complex","how-to-live-simply","inspirational","modern-world","philosophy","quotes"],"id":105645,"author_id":"Debasish+Mridha"},{"text":"Islam is simple, but being a Muslim in a modern world is not. Everyday is a battle that each of us have to face. It is easy to get swept away and lose one's identity. The constant struggle is to find out who we are and how to remain steadfast.","author":"Norhafsah Hamid","tags":["battle","identity","inspirational","modern-world","muslims","religion","steadfastness"],"id":112217,"author_id":"Norhafsah+Hamid"},{"text":"In the modern world, if you want to travel off the beaten path, stay off the beaten media path.","author":"Khang Kijarro Nguyen","tags":["media","modern-world","off-the-beaten-path","travel"],"id":175049,"author_id":"Khang+Kijarro+Nguyen"},{"text":"Saying of the ProphetOppressionWhen oppression exists, even the bird dies in its nest.","author":"Idries Shah","tags":["ethics","islam","modern-world","muhammad","oppression","politics","religion","sufis","sufism"],"id":203086,"author_id":"Idries+Shah"},{"text":"The worlds high on doing and distracting and as result we need to keep doing and it doesn’t really matter what we are doing, as long as it is distracting.","author":"Evan Sutter","tags":["busy","distraction","doing","happiness","life","mindfulness","modern-world","stop","stress"],"id":237903,"author_id":"Evan+Sutter"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":24,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}