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A religion such as Judaism or Catholicism might survive even if it comes to reject a literal account of God creating man…
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Traditionally, psychology has been the study of two populations: university freshmen and white rats.
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Families survive the terrible twos because toddlers aren't strong enough to kill with their hands and aren't capable of using lethal weapons.
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Our best hope for the future [...] lies in an appreciation of the fact that, even if we don’t empathize with distant…
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And empathy is narrow; it connects us to particular individuals, real or imagined, but is insensitive to numerical differences and statistical data.
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If you like somebody, they look better to you. This is why spouses in happy marriages tend to think that their husband…
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We don't just respond to things as we see them, or feel them, or hear them. Rather, our response is conditioned on…
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We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on…
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Philosophers have often looked for the defining feature of humans — language, rationality, culture, and so on. I'd stick with this: Man…
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On many issues, empathy can pull us in the wrong direction. The outrage that comes from adopting the perspective of a victim…
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Too often, our concern for specific individuals today means neglecting crises that will harm countless people in the future.
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We know that young babies, as they become capable of moving voluntarily, will share. They will share food, for instance, with their…
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Perhaps it is better in this present world of ours that a revolutionary idea or invention instead of being helped and patted…
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Mexico was most powerfully my father's smile and not, as you might otherwise imagine, not language, not pigment.
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But if the longing for the achievement of the goal is powerfully alive within us, then shall we not lack the strength…
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We believe we are hurt when we don't receive love. But that is not what hurts us. Our pain comes when we…
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Science and mathematics [are] much more compelling and exciting than the doctrines of pseudoscience, whose practitioners were condemned as early as the…
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Pity is like lust ... both like to masquerade as love and it's powerfully hard to know the difference when you're in…
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Self-remembrance, awareness of 'I am' ripens him powerfully and speedily. Give up all ideas about yourself and simply be.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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If all we know of mind is the aspect of mind that dissolves when we die, we will be left with no…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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Why do we place such a disproportionate emphasis on sporting achievement? Why doesn't success in other fields receive similar attention... Maybe it's…
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Sharing our stories can also be a means of healing. Grief and loss may isolate us, and anger may alienate us. Shared…
— Susan Wittig Albert
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As I became aware that all things have unique spatial and temporal qualities which visually define and relate them, I began to…
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Human beings to me are as much a part of nature as trees or birds, and the unclothed body expresses this belongingness…
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