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Rather Quotes by Stephen Batchelor
- So the Buddha is presenting awakening not as a single mystical experience that may come upon us at some meditation, some private moment of transcendence,…
- I reject karma and rebirth not only because I find them unintelligible, but because I believe they obscure and distort what the Buddha was trying…
- We can be consicous of how we tend to ignore or escape anguish rather than understand and accept it. We can be aware that even…
- Yet Gotama's Dhamma is more than just a series of axioms. It is to be lived rather than simply adopted and believed in. It entails…
- Agnosticism is no excuse for indecision. If anything, it is a catalyst for action; for in shifting concern away from a future life and back…
- The Four Noble Truths are pragmatic rather than dogmatic. They suggest a course of action to be followed rather than a set of dogmas to…
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- The parents have to learn that the child should not be insulted, humiliated, condemned. If you want to help him, love him… — Rajneesh
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- Life never was intended to be easy. Rather, it is a period of proving and growth. It is interwoven with difficulties, challenges,… — Richard G. Scott