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I simply wanted to experience the presence of this man who had revolutionized my understanding. After a while we sat in silence,…
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Practice giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but things you do like.
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In the post-individualistic era, science and spirituality will become allies, and human beings will realize a vast potentiality now only dimly felt.
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We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot be destroyed.
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One reason education undoes belief is its teaching of evolution; Darwin's own drift from orthodoxy to agnosticism was symptomatic. Martin Lings is…
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Built into human makeup is a longing for a 'more' that the world of everyday experience cannot requite.
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In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.
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When there are miles to go before we sleep, altered traits are more important than altered states.
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Institutions are not pretty. Show me a pretty government. Healing is wonderful, but the American Medical Association? Learning is wonderful, but universities?…
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Most of the book deals with things we already know yet never learn.
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Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing…
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Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to…
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My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.
— Bono
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I shall never forget my mother, for it was she who planted and nurtured the first seeds of good within me. She…
— Immanuel Kant
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To do nothing was disgraceful; therefore I made use of my understanding.
— Horatio Nelson
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I simply wanted to experience the presence of this man who had revolutionized my understanding. After a while we sat in silence,…
— Huston Smith
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I will go forward... I will smile at the rage of the tempest, and ride fearlessly and triumphantly across the boisterous ocean…
— Eliza R. Snow
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Ask yourself these two questions: Do I remember at every moment that I am dying, and that everyone and everything else is,…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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If the man who observes the myriad stars, and considers that they and their innumerable satellites move in their serene dignity through…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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I have often been asked, Do not people bore you? I do not understand quite what that means. I suppose the calls…
— Helen Keller
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I've worked with some incredibly difficult directors but my understanding is that a lot of the best people are driven from a…
— Josh Lucas
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If you take my performance or my understanding of the role and my appreciation for story and then dress it in CGI,…
— Vin Diesel
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Now, we will compare the word unto a seed. Now, if ye give place, that a seed may be planted in your…
— D. Todd Christofferson
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Poetry is my understanding with the world, my intimacy with things, my participation in what is real, my engagement with voices and…
— Unknown Author
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