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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 unexamined life, said Socrates, is unfit to be lived by man. This is the virtue of liberty, and the ground on…
— Walter Lippmann
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It may be true that the unexamined life is not worth living-but neither is the unlived life worth examining.
— Dan Millman
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When you're operating on uninvestigated theories of what's going on and you aren't even aware of it, you're in what I call…
— Byron Katie
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Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.
— Irvin D. Yalom
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The dangers of unexamined and unregulated monopoly power, particularly in the state executive, are hardly news. The right reaction is not passive…
— Noam Chomsky
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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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An unexamined idea, to paraphrase Socrates, is not worth having and a society whose ideas are never explored for possible error may…
— Mark Van Doren
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For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and…
— Audre Lorde
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No one seriously doubts Socrates' maxim: The unexamined life isn't worth living. Self-assessment and attempts at self-improvement are essential aspects of "the…
— Robert Burton
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
— Socrates
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued." "It is not living that matters, but living rightly. The unexamined life…
— Socrates
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It is the greatest good for an individual to discuss virtue (aka areté) every day...for the unexamined life is not worth living.
— Socrates
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