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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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I tend to be really pragmatic, but ultimately tend to be attracted to people who pull me into more spontaneity. I've really…
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Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you…
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My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr. King in the '60s, and he's very much for women's rights.
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I have no Napoleonic dream. I'm just hard-working and pragmatic.
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Why, if we are as pragmatic as we claim, don't we begin to ask ourselves seriously: Where does our real future lie?
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The theory of the method of knowing which is advanced in these pages may be termed pragmatic. ... Only that which has…
— John Dewey
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The aims of pure basic science, unlike those of applied science, are neither fast-flowing nor pragmatic. The quick harvest of applied science…
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For strictly scientific or technological purposes all this is irrelevant. On a pragmatic view, as on a religious view, theory and concepts…
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The strategic agreement with Rockchip is an example of Intel’s commitment to take pragmatic and different approaches to grow our presence in…
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I don't have this fantasy about marriage anymore. Everyone says it takes hard work. Well, it kind of does -- and I'm…
— Jennifer Garner
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I have a sort of long-term plan to direct. I'm pragmatic about it. I realize I don't need to rush it or…
— David Wenham
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Anybody who witnesses the suffering of animals and has a glimmer of hope of reducing that suffering can't take the position that…
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