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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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The proper response toward what we occasionally imagine to be democracy, methinks, is to retain one's self-respect by not participating in it.
— Fred Reed
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The proper response, as Hanukkah teaches, is not to curse the darkness but to light a candle.
— Irving Greenberg
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Gratitude is the proper response for the absolute astonishment of getting to be alive, and aware, and an essential part of this…
— John Green
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The proper response to difficulty is not to retreat. It is to prevail.
— George W. Bush
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A Church worshipping as a Creature of the Word doesn't show up to perform or be entertained; she comes desperate and needy,…
— Matt Chandler
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When an office-holder facing a multi-count indictment says that he has decided to spend more time with his family, the proper response…
— Jeff Greenfield
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The proper response to a great work of art is to enter it as though there were nothing else in the world.
— Huston Smith
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Firekeeper still could not understand the human penchant for eating in company. Even less so, she could not understand the human desire…
— Jane Lindskold
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Worship is the proper response of all moral, sentient beings to God, ascribing all honor and worth to their Creator-God precisely because…
— D. A. Carson
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The saddest fact of climate change - and the chief reason we should be concerned about finding a proper response - is…
— Bjorn Lomborg
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