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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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The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
— Lord Acton
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The freedmen were not really free in 1865, nor are most of their descendants really free in 1965. Slavery was but one…
— Samuel Eliot Morison
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We...are not really free if we can't control our own government and its policies. And we will never do that if we…
— Charley Reese
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That's the moment of enlightenment. That is the moment that you become for the first time an unconditioned, sane, really free human…
— Rajneesh
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Whenever there is some trouble in any area of the economy, the simplest solution to many people is "Let the government fix…
— Unknown Author
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You're not really free until you're free from trying to please everybody.
— Joel Osteen
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The mind wants to land, to fixate, to hold a concept, but the only way you can be really free is by…
— Adyashanti
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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…
— Robert Thurman
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A person who forgoes the use of his symbolic skills is never really free.
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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No man can be really free in bed with a woman who is not.
— Nancy Friday
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The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.
— Jules Renard
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Man as Atman is really free; as man he is bound, changed by every physical condition.
— Swami Vivekananda
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