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We are looking for a way to feel more real, but we do not realize that to feel more real we have…
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Uncovering your real desires can be terrifying. It can also set you spectacularly free.
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Buddhism teaches us that happiness does not come from any kind of acquisitiveness, be it material or psychological. Happiness comes from letting…
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Desire is a teacher: When we immerse ourselves in it without guilt, shame, or clinging, it can show us something special about…
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If things do not exist as fixed, independent entities, then how can they die? Our notion of death as the sudden expiration…
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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…
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While the primary function of formal Buddhist meditation is to create the possibility of the experience of "being," my work as a…
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When we seek happiness through accumulation, either outside of ourselves-from other people, relationships, or material goods-or from our own self-development, we are…
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Buddhism teaches us that happiness does not come from any kind of acquisitiveness, be it material or psychological. Happiness comes from letting…
— Mark Epstein
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It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are…
— John Steinbeck
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Stubborn selfishness leads otherwise good people to fight over herds, patches of sand, and strippings of milk. All this results from what…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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Economic activity is no longer an adversarial contest between embattled sellers and buyers "In the distributed economy, where collaboration trumps competition, inclusivity…
— Jeremy Rifkin
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But the instinct of hoarding, like all other instincts, tends to become hypertrophied and perverted; and with the institution of private property…
— William Ralph Inge
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Collecting at its best is very far from mere acquisitiveness; it may become one of the most humanistic of occupations, seeking to…
— Arthur Davison Ficke
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