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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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People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There's an immediacy of this day and age that doesn't…
— Emily Blunt
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Color in color is felt at any and every place of the pictorial organization; in its immediacy - its particularity. Color must…
— Jules Olitski
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Summer cooking implies a sense of immediacy, a capacity to capture the essence of the fleeting moment.
— Elizabeth David
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The strongest wish of a vast number of earnest men and women to-day is for a basis of religious belief which shall…
— William Ralph Inge
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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…
— Stephen Batchelor
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No matter what, I will always prefer a live performance. Whether it be a play or a musical, or playing music live.…
— Darren Criss
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The whole point of art, aside from the aesthetic pleasure it yields, is that it provides a bridge to the past; that…
— Barry Humphries
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Yes, this is what I thought adulthood would be, a kind of long indian summer, a state of tranquility, of calm incuriousness,…
— John Banville
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Regret is an odd emotion because it comes only upon reflection. Regret lacks immediacy, and so its power seldom influences events when…
— Unknown Author
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I certainly am interested in accessibility, clarity, and immediacy.
— Paul Muldoon
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Killing Lincoln is a must-read historical thriller. Bill O'Reilly recounts the dramatic events of the spring of 1865 with such exhilarating immediacy…
— Vince Flynn
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Soon equates to good, later to worse, Uagen Zlepe, scholar. Therefore, immediacy.
— Iain Banks
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