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We can be consicous of how we tend to ignore or escape anguish rather than understand and accept it. We can be aware that even…

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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…
The Buddha described his teaching as "going against the stream." The unflinching light of mindful awareness reveals the extent to which we…
Evasion of the unadorned immediacy of life is as deep-seated as it is relentless. Even with the ardent desire to be aware…
This body is fragile. It is just flesh. Listen to the heartbeat. Life depends on the pumping of a muscle.
This deep agnosticism is more than the refusal of conventional agnosticism to take a stand on whether God exists or whether the…
Our conceptions of the world affect our perceptions of the world which, in turn, condition the way we subsequently conceive the world.
The origin of the conflict, frustration, and anxiety we experience does not lie in the nature of the world itself but in…
It has taken four billion years of evolution to generate this kind of organism with this kind of brain, and yet we…
The idea that there will be something spiritual or subtle, some sort of consciousness that can escape the collapse of the body…
Living from our deepest understanding requires an enormous effort, especially when it goes against the stream of our instinctually programmed perceptions of…
Buddhism, I think, is probably facing the single most difficult transition from one historical epoch to another, which is really the transition…
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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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do. — Thomas Carlyle
If we must lose wife or husband when we live to our highest right, we lose an unhappy marriage as well, and… — Richard Bach
We gain internal freedom through external actions. — Ram Dass
By finding the courage to be ourselves, we gain the power to make a difference. — Lindsey Stirling
The temple is a sacred edifice, a holy place, where essential saving ceremonies and ordinances are performed to prepare us for exaltation.… — Robert D. Hales
By breaking down our sense of self-importance, all we lose is a parasite that has long infected our minds. What we gain… — Matthieu Ricard
According to success do we gain a reputation for judgement. — Euripides
The scientific value of truth is not, however, ultimate or absolute. It rests partly on practical, partly on aesthetic interests. As our… — George Santayana
We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws. — Jacob Bronowski
The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rechristen our evil as what is best in us. — Friedrich Nietzsche
By opening our lives to God in Christ, we become new creatures. This experience, which Jesus spoke of as the new birth,… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which… — Orson F. Whitney

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