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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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My heart has become capable of every form: It is a pasture for gazelles And a monastery for Christian monks, And the…
— Ibn Arabi
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We need to make our own the ancient pastoral wisdom which... encouraged Pastors to listen more widely to the entire People of…
— Pope John Paul II
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Let love lead your soul. Make it a place to retire to, a kind of monastery cave, a retreat for the deepest…
— Farid al-Din Attar
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In a few Zen monasteries, every monk has to start his morning with laughter, and has to end his night with laughter…
— Rajneesh
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A split personality can never become non-greedy. It can try, but it can never become. A split personality can never go beyond…
— Rajneesh
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The period of Catholic ascendancy was on the whole one of the most deplorable in the history of the human mind. .…
— William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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Running is just such a monastery- a retreat, a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual…
— George A. Sheehan
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I don't think there's any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to them. If you lived in…
— Ken Follett
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There were rules in the monastery, but the Master always warned against the tyranny of the law. 'Obedience keeps the rules,' he…
— Anthony de Mello
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I have always hated crowds. I like deserts, prisons, and monasteries. I have discovered, too, that there are fewer idiots at 3000…
— Jean Giono
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We took a bus to the nearby monastery of one of the last great Tang dynasty Chan masters, Yun-men. Yun-men was known…
— Stephen Batchelor
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Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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