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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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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but…
— Erica Jong
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What, I'm supposed to succumb to your ideal image of what this is? No. I'm gonna stand above that and I'm gonna…
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Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness…
— Albert Schweitzer
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If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself…
— Sun Tzu
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Don't succumb to excuses. Go back to the job of making the corrections and forming the habits that will make your goal…
— Vince Lombardi
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The greatest threat to compassion is the temptation to succumb to fantasies of moral superiority.
— Stephen Batchelor
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You're the light I can never have and I'm the darkness you'll never succumb to.
— Jeaniene Frost
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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle. What I mean is that what…
— Alain Badiou
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Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures…
— Henry Adams
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History's villains are more easily recognized in retrospect. In an article published in 1935 and reprinted in 1937, Winston Churchill expressed a…
— Winston Churchill
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Any medical man who predicts exactly when a patient will die, or exactly how long he will live, is bound to make…
— Agatha Christie
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Yet if women are so flighty, fickle, changeable, susceptible, and inconstant (as some clerks would have us believe), why is it that…
— Christine de Pizan
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