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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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Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.
— Emile M. Cioran
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The most beautiful things in the creating of the child are his "mistakes." The more a child's work is full of these…
— Franz Cizek
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Science is complex and chilling. The mathematical language of science is understood by very few. The vistas it presents are scary-an enormous…
— Isaac Asimov
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If you are a man of prayer, existence appears as God, as personal. If you are a man of meditation, existence is…
— Rajneesh
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Our nature is to worship, but unless that element is directed towards God it becomes "a senseless impersonal force, carrying us away…
— Olivier Clement
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The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator. This means ... that he should be able…
— Benjamin Graham
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Within these premises, the only thing one can be is an impeccable mediator. One is not the player in this cosmic match…
— Carlos Castaneda
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War can be so impersonal yet when we put a name, a face, a place and match it to families, then war…
— Dennis Kucinich
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I feel very strongly that I am under the influence of things or questions which were left incomplete and unanswered by my…
— Carl Jung
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I want relations which are not purely personal, based on purely personal qualities; but relations based upon some unanimous accord in truth…
— D. H. Lawrence
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The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
— John Berger
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As for the law of moral causation ('karma'): this is human justice dressed up as cosmic justice and then imputed to the…
— Stephen Batchelor
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