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- The worldly person is insane from the point of view of the spiritual person.
- The tradition of nonviolence, optimism, concern for the individual, and unconditional compassion that developed in Tibet is the culmination of a slow inner revolution, a…
- To finish building the free society dreamed of by Washington, Franklin, and Jefferson, we must draw upon the resources of the enlightened imagination, which can…
- To become enlightened is not just to slip into some disconnected euphoria, an oceanic feeling of mystic oneness apart from ordinary reality. It is not…
- Imagine a culture in which everything is geared toward helping all individuals become the best human beings they can be; in which individuals are driven…
- Within our own society, we jail more prisoners than any other country in the world, 85 percent of them people of nonwhite races — red,…
- Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the greatest teachers of our time. He reaches from the heights of insight down to the deepest places of…
- People are afraid that if they let go of their anger and righteousness and wrath, and look at their own feelings-and even see the good…
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