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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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This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
— Euripides
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The more you know, the more unflinchingly you deny casual beliefs and Accepted Wisdom when it flies in the face of reality,…
— Harlan Ellison
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...Nature-the word that stands for the baffling mysteries of the Universe. Steadily, unflinchingly, we strive to pierce the inmost heart of Nature,…
— William Crookes
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No half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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I reject karma and rebirth not only because I find them unintelligible, but because I believe they obscure and distort what the…
— Stephen Batchelor
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I devoted my career to building an affinity with my fans who have supported me unflinchingly and no barbed wire fence or…
— Foxy Brown
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What should we think of someone who never admits error, never entertains doubt but adheres unflinchingly to the same ideas all his…
— Diane Ravitch
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The integral approach is committed to the full spectrum of consciousness as it manifests in all its extraordinary diversity. This allows the…
— Ken Wilber
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That's what love does - it pursues blindly, unflinchingly, and without end. When you go after something you love, you'll do anything…
— Bob Goff
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A coin is turned around before it is handed to the beggar, yet a child is unflinchingly tossed into cosmic bruteness.
— Peter Wessel Zapffe
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There is need for some kind of make-believe in order to face death unflinchingly. To our real, naked selves there is not…
— Eric Hoffer
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It is our own pain, and our own desire to be free of it, that alerts us to the suffering of the…
— Sylvia Boorstein
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