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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 and alert in…
- I reject karma and rebirth not only because I find them unintelligible, but because I believe they obscure and distort what the Buddha was trying…
- Each time the dharma moved into a different civilization or historical period, it faced a twofold challenge: to maintain its integrity as an internally coherent…
- We can be consicous of how we tend to ignore or escape anguish rather than understand and accept it. We can be aware that even…
- Without a rigorous, self-critical discourse, one risks lapsing into pious platitudes and unexamined generalizations.
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- I don't know I really love u or not. But whenever I think about my life without u it kills me. Whenever… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
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- The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial side; has… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Lao Tsu always points a finger directly to us. He says we must begin with ourselves. It's impossible to bring order into… — Frederick Lenz