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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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Government is frequently and aptly classed under two descriptions-a government of force, and a government of laws; the first is the definition…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the…
— Jane Austen
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A newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people, has nothing…
— George Bernard Shaw
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All descriptions of matter are descriptions of modes of human perception within consciousness.
— Deepak Chopra
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People are naming it the Third Wave, the Information Age, etc. but I would say those are basically technological descriptions, and this…
— Paul Hawken
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By an application of the theory of relativity to the taste of readers, today in Germany I am called a German man…
— Albert Einstein
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If the resurrection of Jesus cannot be believed except by assenting to the fantastic descriptions included in the Gospels, then Christianity is…
— John Shelby Spong
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In descriptions of Nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets…
— Anton Chekhov
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Habits of thought lead us to brush aside descriptions of cruelty to animals as emotional, for "animal-lovers only"; or if not that,…
— Peter Singer
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...course titles and even course descriptions often fail to reveal what is actually taught (much less learned)...
— Unknown Author
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The apportionment of taxes on the various descriptions of property is an act which seems to require the most exact impartiality; yet…
— James Madison
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By a generative grammar I mean simply a system of rules that in some explicit and well-defined way assigns structural descriptions to…
— Noam Chomsky
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