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Uncovering your real desires can be terrifying. It can also set you spectacularly free.
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While the primary function of formal Buddhist meditation is to create the possibility of the experience of "being," my work as a…
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Buddhism teaches us that happiness does not come from any kind of acquisitiveness, be it material or psychological. Happiness comes from letting…
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When we seek happiness through accumulation, either outside of ourselves-from other people, relationships, or material goods-or from our own self-development, we are…
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Desire is a teacher: When we immerse ourselves in it without guilt, shame, or clinging, it can show us something special about…
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If things do not exist as fixed, independent entities, then how can they die? Our notion of death as the sudden expiration…
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To be free, to come to terms with our lives, we have to have a direct experience of ourselves as we really…
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To free desire from the tendency to cling, we have to be willing to stumble over ourselves.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
— Alan Kay
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To know another human being in their essence, you don’t really need to know anything about them - their past, their history,…
— Eckhart Tolle
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I have come to see that our problem is that we don't know what happiness is. We confuse it with a life…
— Mark Epstein
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The problem with much of the debate over this issue is that we confuse two separate matters: immigration policy (how many people…
— Tom Tancredo
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God in His answers to prayer often says "Yes." Sometimes He says "Wait." Often He says "No." In any case, His will…
— Norman Vincent Peale
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One of the reasons for its success is that science has a built-in, error-correcting machinery at its very heart. Some may consider…
— Carl Sagan
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Most of us, I believe, admire strength. It's something we tend to respect in others, desire for ourselves, and wish for our…
— Fred Rogers
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Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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