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- Different Chinese philosophers, writing probably in 5-4 centuries B.C., presented some major ideas and a way of life that are nowadays known under the name…
- However much I may be impressed by the difference between a star and the dark space around it, I must not forget that I can…
- There's an interdependence between flowers and bees. Where there are no flowers there are no bees, and where there are no bees, there are no…
- We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.
- Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well…
- We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.
- And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of…
- I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium
- ...[W]ords can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
- But nirvana is a radical transformation of how it feels to be alive: it feels as if everything were myself, or as if everything---including "my"…
- The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition…
- What we see as death, empty space, or nothingness is only the trough between the crests of this endlessly waving ocean. It is all part…
- Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a…
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- A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing through his… — Clara Barton
- You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them. — David Attenborough
- If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security, even if… — Margaret Atwood
- It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between. — Diane Ackerman
- I do support a constitutional amendment on marriage between a man and a woman, but I would not be going into the… — Michele Bachmann
- Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the… — Honore de Balzac