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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…
• This body is fragile. It is just flesh. Listen to the heartbeat. Life depends on the pumping of a muscle.
• ...inner spiritual transformation is just as dependent upon the effect of our economic life upon the world as transformations in the world…
• The Buddha described his teaching as "going against the stream." The unflinching light of mindful awareness reveals the extent to which we…
• This deep agnosticism is more than the refusal of conventional agnosticism to take a stand on whether God exists or whether the…
• Our conceptions of the world affect our perceptions of the world which, in turn, condition the way we subsequently conceive the world.
• The origin of the conflict, frustration, and anxiety we experience does not lie in the nature of the world itself but in…
• 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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