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There is a yearning that is as spiritual as it is sensual. Even when it degenerates into addiction, there is something salvageable… — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
What is wrong with looking muscular? Muscles are beautiful. Strength is beautiful. Muscle tissue is beautiful. It is metabolically, medically, and philosophically… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
So the Buddha is presenting awakening not as a single mystical experience that may come upon us at some meditation, some private… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“Mac Rebennack, better known as Dr. John, once told me that when a brass band plays at a small club back up… — Tom Piazza Copy Share Image
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A little group of thatched cottages in the middle of the village had an orchard attached; and I remember well the peculiar… — A. L. Rowse Copy Share Image
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Robin [Williams] was a world treasure. As we mourn his tragic death, we must remember him for the great waves of laughter… — Glenn Close Copy Share Image
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Gaia's main problems are not industrialization, ozone depletion, overpopulation, or resource depletion. Gaia's main problem is the lack of mutual understanding and… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
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the seeker who embraces positive theology finds ... that you can have all that stuff in the mall, as well as the… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
The body, the mind, and the spirit don't form a pyramid, they form a circle. Each of them runs into the other… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
I believe that telling our stories, first to ourselves and then to one another and the world, is a revolutionary act. It… — Janet Mock Copy Share Image
For some people, the experience of sexuality is that they are entirely inside their body, but others feel they have totally transcended… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
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It doesn't necessarily matter if I'm onstage or not. I just find the communal experience of a rock concert, or any type… — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
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Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms. The drive for power is not uncommonly… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
...as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens, so is there no bar or wall in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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My whole artistic life has been devoted to battling myself and my ability to externalize my deepest emotions. As I have gotten… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
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