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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 woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its…
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In the American Metaphysical, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.
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You can never get rich, or start the creative power into action, by sending out unformed longings and vague desires.
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I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.
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Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except unformed matter has some natural inferior.
— C.S. Lewis
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Take time to listen to what is said without words, to obey the law too subtle to be written, to worship the…
— Laozi
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Concrete is momentarily unformed matter seeking its natural completion, filling in the last corners of its allowed space, finding a form. It…
— Mark Kingwell
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It is only when the formed learns from the unformed that there is understanding.
— Zhuangzi
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Here we are in the century of information, that is to say the unformed. Every kind of literature will be journalistic, with…
— Julien Torma
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The artist must try to raise the level of taste of the masses, not debase himself to the level of unformed and…
— Diego Rivera
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When intellectual leaders fail to foster the best in the mixed, unformed, vacillating character of people at large, the thugs are sure…
— Ayn Rand
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Spirit, God, gathers unformed thoughts into their proper channels, and unfolds these thoughts, even as He opens the petals of a holy…
— Mary Baker Eddy
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