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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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When you factor in population growth, it's clear that the mobility model that we have today simply will not work tomorrow. Four…
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Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey…
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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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Four billion people on Earth make less than four dollars a day.
— Jacqueline Novogratz
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Of the four billion life forms which have existed on this planet, three billion, nine hundred and sixty million are now extinct.…
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You try to make the world a better place and what does it get you? I mean, Christ, how the hell does…
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Four billion years ago the planet Earth was molten rock; now it sings opera!
— Brian Swimme
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For the first time in four billion years a living creature had contemplated himself and heard with a sudden, unaccountable loneliness, the…
— Loren Eiseley
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Nature is flexible and resilient. Nature likes redundancy and dispersion. It is approximate and deals in gradients. All boundaries are permeable. Nature…
— Unknown Author
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We owe our existence to innovation. Our species exists thanks to four billion years of genetic innovation.
— Gary Hamel
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Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know…
— Andrew Wiles
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The genome is a book that wrote itself, continually adding, deleting and amending over four billion years.
— Matt Ridley
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