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The Buddhists think that, because we've all had infinite previous lives, we've all been each other's relatives. Therefore all of you, in…
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Enlightenment is not meant to be an object of religious faith. It is an evolutionary goal, something we want to become...
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The worldly person is insane from the point of view of the spiritual person.
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Whether or not enlightenment is a plausible goal for us is a vital question for our lives. If it is possible for…
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In the practice of exchanging self & other, paradoxes abound.
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The tradition of nonviolence, optimism, concern for the individual, and unconditional compassion that developed in Tibet is the culmination of a slow…
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Practice giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but things you do like. Remember, it is not the size…
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Commercial interests with their advertising industry do not want people to develop contentment and less greed. Military interests in economic, political, ethnic…
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To finish building the free society dreamed of by Washington, Franklin, and Jefferson, we must draw upon the resources of the enlightened…
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Those caught in the cycle of self-concern suffer helplessly, while the compassionate are more free and, implicitly, more happy.
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To become enlightened is not just to slip into some disconnected euphoria, an oceanic feeling of mystic oneness apart from ordinary reality.…
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Imagine a culture in which everything is geared toward helping all individuals become the best human beings they can be; in which…
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Paradoxes are useful to attract attention to ideas.
— Mandell Creighton
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The tenets of [the Christian life] seem paradoxes to carnal men; as first, that a Christian is the only freeman, and other…
— Richard Sibbes
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One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories.
— Philip J. Davis
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On foundations we believe in the reality of mathematics, but of course, when philosophers attack us with their paradoxes, we rush to…
— Jean Dieudonne
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In it he proves that all things are true and states how the truths of all contradictions may be reconciled physically, such…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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The challenge of warriorship is to live fully in the world as it is and to find within this world, with all…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.
— Maxine Hong Kingston
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Affirmations are like screaming that you're okay in order to overcome this whisper that you're not. That's a big contrast to actually…
— Pema Chodron
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There is something so far-fetched and so extravagant in the idea of danger to liberty from the militia that one is at…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Yes. The way people behave, the paradoxes, the contradictions. All these things we have to live with and still pretend that everything…
— Vincent Cassel
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I'm into paradoxes. I wanted to make an album about them, but the group told me I was a pretentious fart. They…
— Brian May
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There are some who maintain that trade will regulate itself, and it is not to be benefited by the encouragements or restraints…
— Alexander Hamilton
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