Ambiguity Quote by Brad Warner

“The state of ambiguity - that messy, greasy, mixed-up, confused, and awful situation you're living through right now - is enlightenment itself.” quote by Brad Warner — Download Open image

“The state of ambiguity - that messy, greasy, mixed-up, confused, and awful situation you're living through right now - is enlightenment itself.”

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We always imagine that there's got to be somewhere else better than where we are right now; this is the Great Somewhere Else we all carry around in our heads. We believe Somewhere Else is out there for us if only we could find it. But there's no Somewhere Else. Everything is right here...Make this your paradise or make this…

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Ambiguity is necessary in some of my stories, not in all. In those, it certainly contributes to the richness of the story. I doubt…

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During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.

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You cannot grow in the integrative dance of action and contemplation without a strong tolerance for ambiguity, an ability to allow, forgive, and contain…

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I blame my grandfather 100 percent for his oldest son's death. I don't think there's any ambiguity there.

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Yet again, an ancient answer echoes across the centuries: Listen! Listen to stories! For what stories do, above all else, is hold up a mirror so that we can see ourselves. Stories are mirrors of human be-ing, reflecting back our very essence. In a story, we come to know precisely the both/and, mixed-upped-ness of our very being. In the mirror…

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My path to wisdom began when I stopped pretending to know things I didn't know. When I explicitly admitted to the limits of my…

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In order to be as free as I possibly can, in my own imagination, I can't take positions that are closed. Everything I've ever…

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I've always been drawn to ambiguity in pop music.

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I believe that we can still have a genre of scientific books suitable for and accessible alike to professionals and interested laypeople. The concepts of science, in all their richness and ambiguity, can be presented without any compromise, without any simplification counting as distortion, in language accessible to all intelligent people. I hope that this book can be read with…

Stephen Jay Gould

I am in the utmost perplexity, yand have wished a hundred times, that if there is a A God, nature would manifest him without ambiguity, and that if there is not, every imaginary sign of his existence might vanish : in short, let nature speak distinctly, or be totally silent, and I shall know what course to take.

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