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We eat as sons and daughters, as families, as communities, as generations, as nations, and increasingly as a globe. We can't stop…
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August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the year, covertly…
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SADNESSES OF THE INTELLECT: Sadness of being misunderstood [sic]; Humor sadness; Sadness of love wit[hou]t release; Sadne[ss of be]ing smart; Sadness of…
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The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely…
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Murdering someone would surely prove that you are capable of killing, but it wouldn't be the most reasonable way to understand why…
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Be the instrument playing the sound of your life's passing
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I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it…
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Animal agriculture makes a 40% greater contribution to global warming than all transportation in the world combined; it is the number one…
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When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
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How would you judge an artist who mutilated animals in a gallery because it was visually arresting? How riveting would the sound…
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The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't…
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Everyone is always in need of something that another person can give, be it undivided attention, a kind word or deep empathy.…
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In Tibetan, authentic presence is wangthang, which literally means, 'field of power'... The cause or the virtue that brings about authentic presence…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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Meditation means you start changing your inner world. You start removing dust from the inner world, you start removing all that is…
— Rajneesh
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We should notice that we are already supported at every moment. There is the earth below our feet and there is the…
— Natalie Goldberg
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The lecturer who is full of his subject is usually very slow in emptying himself.
— Evan Esar
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I take the seashell from my jeans pocket and rub my fingers across its silken, indented surface, shallow as my own open…
— Katrina Kenison
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Without total freedom, every perception, every objective regard, is twisted. It is only the man who is totally free who can look…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Humility is a priceless virtue; however, it takes a lot of self-emptying to cultivate it.
— Michael Ugwu Eneja
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In Christ, man who made himself God encounters God who made himself man. Unrivaled self-importance and pride encounters unrivaled self-emptying and humility.
— Christopher West
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Some breakfast food manufacturer hit upon the simple notion of emptying out the leavings of carthorse nose bags, adding a few other…
— Frank Muir
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The sage governs by emptying senses and filling bellies.
— Laozi
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The True Person governs by emptying the heart of desire and filling the belly with food, weakening ambitions and strengthening bones.
— Laozi
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There is no easy formula for determining right and wrong livelihood, but it is essential to keep the question alive. To return…
— Sam Keen
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