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I simply wanted to experience the presence of this man who had revolutionized my understanding. After a while we sat in silence,…
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Practice giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but things you do like.
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In the post-individualistic era, science and spirituality will become allies, and human beings will realize a vast potentiality now only dimly felt.
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We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot be destroyed.
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One reason education undoes belief is its teaching of evolution; Darwin's own drift from orthodoxy to agnosticism was symptomatic. Martin Lings is…
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Built into human makeup is a longing for a 'more' that the world of everyday experience cannot requite.
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In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.
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When there are miles to go before we sleep, altered traits are more important than altered states.
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Institutions are not pretty. Show me a pretty government. Healing is wonderful, but the American Medical Association? Learning is wonderful, but universities?…
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Most of the book deals with things we already know yet never learn.
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Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing…
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Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to…
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I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
— Theodore Bikel
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The diffusion of a universalist culture and of a pedagogy of peace appears more than ever to be the path that we…
— Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
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The universalist approach is roughly: 'What is good and right can be defined and always applies.' In particularist cultures far greater attention…
— Fons Trompenaars
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I remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a better Jew.
— Theodore Bikel
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It is no coincidence that a rebirth of psychedelic use is occuring as we acquire the technological capability to leave the planet.…
— Terence McKenna
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UNIVERSALIST, n. One who forgoes the advantage of a Hell for persons of another faith.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I'm not a chauvinist. I'm a universalist. I think that God imploded, like a spiritual big bang, to launch the eight civilizations…
— Huston Smith
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness…
— N. T. Wright
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There are very few men and women in whom a Universalist feeling is altogether lacking; its prevalence suggests that it must be…
— Arthur Keith
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A Universalist, your heart cannot but dilate, and your affections widen, until the divine expansion, like the ambient atmosphere, embraces every form,…
— Judith Sargent Murray
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I always try to be a universalist, not a specialist.
— Willy Bogner, Jr.
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Bush is morally a universalist. For instance, he says the freedom is good, the same thing is good, all over the world.…
— Peter Singer
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