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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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Nature knows no political boundaries. She puts living creatures on this globe and watches the free play of forces. She then confers…
— Adolf Hitler
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But where only a free play of our presentational powers is to be sustained as in the case of pleasure gardens, room…
— Immanuel Kant
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All our thinking is of this nature, a free play with concepts.
— Albert Einstein
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The Roman Catholic Church has the unique power of keeping remote control over human souls which have once been part of her.…
— Evelyn Waugh
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Out of man's mind in free play comes the creation Science. It renews itself, like the generations, thanks to an activity which…
— Jacques Barzun
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A man who wants the truth becomes a scientist; a man who wants to give free play to his subjectivity may become…
— Robert Musil
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We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free…
— Raoul Vaneigem
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The facts of nature cannot in the long run be violated. Penetrating and seeping through everything like water, they will undermine any…
— Carl Jung
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I have never looked for dream in reality or reality in dream. I have allowed my imagination free play, and I have…
— Gustave Moreau
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Scientific progress on a broad front results from the free play of free intellects, working on subjects of their own choice, in…
— Vannevar Bush
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What is contrary to women's nature to do, they never will be made to do by simply giving their nature free play.
— John Stuart Mill
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Habits and customs are a convenience devised for the support of timid natures who dare not allow their souls free play.
— Virginia Woolf
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