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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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Liebig was not a teacher in the ordinary sense of the word. Scientifically productive himself in an unusual degree, and rich in…
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Creation,' in the ordinary sense of the word, is perfectly conceivable. I find no difficulty in conceiving that, at some former period,…
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I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation.
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Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person…
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I'm not trying to sign people up to a creed, I'm much more interested in the people that disagree. These ideas are…
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AA is no success story in the ordinary sense of the word. It is a story of suffering transmuted, under grace, into…
— Bill W.
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Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it. The true…
— E. M. Forster
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Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of man's art would also be…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The denial of "self" challenges only the notion of a static self independent of body and mind-not the ordinary sense of ourself…
— Stephen Batchelor
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Our soul is not united to our body in the ordinary sense of these terms. It is immediately and directly united to…
— Nicolas Malebranche
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We all travel the milky way together, trees and men; but it never occurred to me until this storm-day, while swinging in…
— John Muir
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I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted…
— Aleister Crowley
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