"We live in a culture where everything is……" — Daniel Pinchbeck
"We live in a culture where everything is designed for our comfort or entertainment but nothing satisfies. At our core, we remain insatiable, constantly on the prowl for new commodities and pleasant sensations to fill the void."
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18 Quotes by Daniel Pinchbeck
Daniel Pinchbeck has 18 quotes on this site.
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The 'coming of the Self' is an apocalypse for the ego, the 'you' that wants to hang along for the…
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If you step back from it and really think about what the mass media does on a global scale, the…
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Reality, as you currently experience it, is something like a waking dream. It is disguising deeper and more intensified levels…
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I realized that most thoughts are impersonal happenings, like self-assembling machines. Unless we train ourselves, the thoughts passing through our…
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Synchronicities express themselves through chance meetings and natural events as well as in dreams and supernatural episodes.
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Our normal human tendencies are distraction and dissipation. We begin one task, then get seduced by some other option, and…
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Electronic culture created soulless replacements for connective rituals- television supplanted tribal legends told by the fire; 'fast food' consumed in…
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The universe is an emanation of mind. As human consciousness evolves in an accelerated spiral, we are being compelled to…
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If consciousness is the ground of being rather than an epiphenomenon of physical processes, we may find that a basic…
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Life as an end is qualitatively different from life as a means.
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The drive to Black Rock City from San Francisco leads through the Nevada flatlands, past the jittering neon sadness of…
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Deep down, nobody wants a job to occupy his or her time. We want a mission that inspires us.
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More Comfort Quotes
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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief;…
— Aristotle
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When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for…
— Kevyn Aucoin
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
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There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
— Jane Austen
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Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it…
— Teresa of Avila
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Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is…
— Teresa of Avila
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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
— Francis Bacon
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all…
— Saint Basil
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day…
— Joseph Addison
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I like looking nice, but I always put comfort over fashion. I don't find thin girls attractive; be happy and…
— Adele
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Prayer in the hour of need is a great boon. From simple trials to our Gethsemanes, prayer - persistent prayer…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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