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...inner spiritual transformation is just as dependent upon the effect of our economic life upon the world as transformations in the world…
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The Buddha described his teaching as "going against the stream." The unflinching light of mindful awareness reveals the extent to which we…
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Evasion of the unadorned immediacy of life is as deep-seated as it is relentless. Even with the ardent desire to be aware…
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This body is fragile. It is just flesh. Listen to the heartbeat. Life depends on the pumping of a muscle.
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This deep agnosticism is more than the refusal of conventional agnosticism to take a stand on whether God exists or whether the…
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Our conceptions of the world affect our perceptions of the world which, in turn, condition the way we subsequently conceive the world.
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The origin of the conflict, frustration, and anxiety we experience does not lie in the nature of the world itself but in…
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It has taken four billion years of evolution to generate this kind of organism with this kind of brain, and yet we…
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The idea that there will be something spiritual or subtle, some sort of consciousness that can escape the collapse of the body…
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Living from our deepest understanding requires an enormous effort, especially when it goes against the stream of our instinctually programmed perceptions of…
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Buddhism, I think, is probably facing the single most difficult transition from one historical epoch to another, which is really the transition…
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So the Buddha is presenting awakening not as a single mystical experience that may come upon us at some meditation, some private…
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Next to the word 'Nature,' 'the Great Chain of Being' was the sacred phrase of the eighteenth century, playing a part somewhat…
— Unknown Author
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Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id, whereas psychosis is the analogous outcome of a similar…
— Sigmund Freud
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It seems sensible to discard all hope of observing hitherto unobservable quantities, such as the position and period of the electron... Instead…
— Werner Heisenberg
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The generation of seeds ... is therefore marvelous and analogous to the other productions of living things. For first of all an…
— Marcello Malpighi
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Another source of conviction in the existence of God, connected with the reason and not with the feelings, impresses me as having…
— Charles Darwin
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Walking also enables us to watch a hole unfold in front of us. To walk a course is analogous to driving a…
— Lorne Rubenstein
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The elementary parts of all tissues are formed of cells in an analogous, though very diversified manner, so that it may be…
— Theodor Schwann
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The principal result of my investigation is that a uniform developmental principle controls the individual elementary units of all organisms, analogous to…
— Theodor Schwann
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The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure.
— Nicholas Meyer
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Attributing global climate change to human COâ‚‚ production is akin to trying to diagnose an automotive problem by ignoring the engine (analogous…
— Timothy Ball
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Whether a man chooses to tell the truth in long sentences or short jokes is a problem analogous to whether he chooses…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The piano has eighty-eight keys, and you have to be able to play all of them. And the range of white to…
— Ansel Adams
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