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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 making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of…
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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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The last thing my mother said to me was, 'SuSu, your life is a celebration of everything that is cheap and tawdry.'…
— Unknown Author
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Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of…
— Edmund Leach
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Truth looks tawdry when she is overdressed.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Advertizing, television and film all wield mighty powers to visually seduce us, while much fine art leaves us indifferent, confused or, at…
— John Walford
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I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.
— Oliver Reed
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The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be.
— Arthur C. Clarke
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This is newness: every little tawdry Obstacle glass-wrapped and peculiar, Glinting and clinking in a saint's falsetto. Only you Don't know what…
— Sylvia Plath
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Dreams are tawdry when compared with the leading of God, and not worthy of the aura of wonder we usually surround them…
— Jim Elliot
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If you focus on the humanity of your stories, your characters, then the horror will be stronger, scarier. Without the humanity, the…
— Don Roff
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