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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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The money can be a hindrance to someone like me because the danger is that you start thinking, 'Is that a $20…
— Jim Carrey
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I'm hugely self-critical in the morning.
— Nick Cave
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I was so self-critical. I still am, but it's not as bad anymore.
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A garden should be in a constant state of fluid change, expansion, experiment, adventure; above all it should be an inquisitive, loving,…
— H E Bates
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Without a rigorous, self-critical discourse, one risks lapsing into pious platitudes and unexamined generalizations.
— Stephen Batchelor
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If our shallow, self-critical culture sometimes seems to lack a sense of the numinous or spiritual it's only in the same way…
— Grant Morrison
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One of the things that has changed my life—and this comes from someone who was highly self-critical and a type-A personality—is meditating.…
— Sheryl Crow
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline,…
— Alan Perlis
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The main thing that develops positional judgement, that perfects it and makes it many-sided, is detailed analytical work, sensible tournament practice, a…
— Alexander Kotov
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Many young women are less whole and androgynous than they were at age ten. They are more appearance-conscious and sex-conscious. They are…
— Mary Pipher
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The combination of rumination and negative mood is toxic. Research shows that people who ruminate while sad or distraught are likely to…
— Sonja Lyubomirsky
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Scientists make mistakes. Accordingly, it is the job of the scientist to recognize our weakness, to examine the widest range of opinions,…
— Carl Sagan
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