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• All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
• The free man is not he who defies the rules ... but he who, recognizing the compulsions inherent in his… — Bernard Iddings Bell
• The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days;… — William O. Douglas
• As meditation deepens, compulsions, cravings and fits of emotion begin to lose their power to dictate our behavior. We see… — Eknath Easwaran
• When the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten. When the belt fits, the belly is forgotten. When the heart is… — Zhuangzi
• Not merely by rules of conduct and religious observances, nor by much learning either, nor even by attainment of concentration,… — Gautama Buddha
• The most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage from want to… — Henri Lefebvre
• But that night as I drove back to Montreal, I at least discovered this: that there is no simple explanation… — Hugh MacLennan
• If we become aware of its limitations and compulsions, we can transcend them. — B.K.S. Iyengar
• Your desintation is a life of meaning, fulfillment, creativity and joy. A life free of fears, obsessions, compulsions, and addictions,… — Gary Zukav
• To become enlightened is not just to slip into some disconnected euphoria, an oceanic feeling of mystic oneness apart from… — Robert Thurman
• You are not your past, not your habits, not your compulsions. When you get to know who you are, anything… — Geneen Roth

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