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Robert Thurman has 23 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The Buddhists think that, because we've all had infinite previous lives, we've all been each other's relatives. Therefore all of you, in…
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Enlightenment is not meant to be an object of religious faith. It is an evolutionary goal, something we want to become...
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The worldly person is insane from the point of view of the spiritual person.
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Whether or not enlightenment is a plausible goal for us is a vital question for our lives. If it is possible for…
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In the practice of exchanging self & other, paradoxes abound.
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The tradition of nonviolence, optimism, concern for the individual, and unconditional compassion that developed in Tibet is the culmination of a slow…
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Practice giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but things you do like. Remember, it is not the size…
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Commercial interests with their advertising industry do not want people to develop contentment and less greed. Military interests in economic, political, ethnic…
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To finish building the free society dreamed of by Washington, Franklin, and Jefferson, we must draw upon the resources of the enlightened…
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Those caught in the cycle of self-concern suffer helplessly, while the compassionate are more free and, implicitly, more happy.
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To become enlightened is not just to slip into some disconnected euphoria, an oceanic feeling of mystic oneness apart from ordinary reality.…
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Imagine a culture in which everything is geared toward helping all individuals become the best human beings they can be; in which…
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[Why] should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book? Its morals are pure, its examples captivating…
— Fisher Ames
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The aggressive and quite illogical idea of a single religion for all mankind, a religion universal by the very force of its…
— Sri Aurobindo
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You must linger among a limited number of master-thinkers, and digest their works, if you would derive ideas which shall win firm…
— Seneca the Younger
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I stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm hold on…
— Grace Abbott
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We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.
— Anne Sullivan Macy
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Nonviolence against humans cannot take firm hold in society as long as brutality and violence are practiced toward other animals.
— Robert Thurman
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A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins…
— Augustus Hare
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She had turned her back upon them all and no awful fate had overtaken her; instead, she had taken a firm hold…
— Louis Bromfield
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I love you, Not only for what you are, But for what I am When I am with you. I love you…
— Kemis Khan
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