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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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We rarely confide in those who are better than we are. — Albert Camus
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When reading about what may be described as the lesser celebrated heroic figures of the Harlem Renaissance, we rarely get a definitive… — Aberjhani
While we allow the inhabitants of imaginary remote corners the authenticity of savages or sufferers, we rarely suppose them to possess the… — Eva Hoffman
We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from… — Horace
We rarely quote nowadays to appeal to authority... though we quote sometimes to display our sapience and erudition. Some authors we quote… — Ihab Hassan
We rarely ever perceive others as being sensible, except for those who agree with us. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We can be consicous of how we tend to ignore or escape anguish rather than understand and accept it. We can be… — Stephen Batchelor
We rarely grow when we're happy, we grow when we hurt. — Maggie Q
Happiness: We rarely feel it. I would buy it, beg it, steal it, Pay in coins of dripping blood For this one… — Amy Lowell
Everything on earth is being continuously transformed, because the earth is alive . and it has a soul. We are part of… — Paulo Coelho
The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget… — Tryon Edwards

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